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Sunday 14 February 2010

BBC reluctant to report the whole story

The BBC report under the headline "India restaurant bomb blast kills nine in Pune " that:
"At least nine people have been killed and 57 others injured in a bomb attack at a restaurant in India's western city of Pune, officials say.

The explosion tore through the German Bakery, which is popular with tourists, in Koregaon Park.

The bombing is the first major strike of its kind in India since the deadly Mumbai attacks in November 2008.

Reports that one of the dead is a foreign national have not yet been confirmed by the Indian authorities.

Several foreigners were said to be among the injured.

The explosion at the restaurant, on North Main Road, happened at about 1900 (1330 GMT), when it was packed with diners.

"It appears that an unattended package was noticed in the bakery by one of the waiters who apparently attempted to open the package when the blast took place," Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.

"We heard a big noise and we all rushed out. The impact was so great that there were body parts everywhere," Vinod Dhale, who works at the restaurant, told Reuters. "
That takes you to the end of the first section of the BBC report and beyond the first page of a normal sized web browser and so all that most skimmers of the news will read.

The Times of India report the same story thus:
"9 confirmed dead, 45 injured in blast at Pune bakery
PUNE: Terror struck Pune tonight as a powerful bomb ripped apart a popular bakery near a Jewish prayer house, killing nine people, including five women and a foreigner, and injuring 45 in the first major attack since 26/11 carnage."
A Jewish prayer House, might that not be important to the story as one of these was also one of the targets of the Islamic terrorist attack on Mumbai.

If you read on in the BBC piece they do eventually report that:
"The German Bakery is near the Osho Ashram, a mystic centre popular with visitors to Pune.

The Chabad centre, run by the Jewish Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement, is also in the vicinity.

Members of the Chabad-Lubavitch were targeted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and in October 2009 the home ministry issued a security alert for the Chabad centre in Pune. "
But this is kept way down the story lest anyone make the link to Islamic terrorism caused by a desire to kill all Jews wherever they may be.

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