Poor Show, MotherCorp.
One of the world's premier news distortion agencies, the BBC, has been nabbed in yet another amateur mistake:

Cruel $12 billion hoax on Bhopal victims and BBC

By Sean O’Neill
THE BBC was forced to apologise yesterday after being duped by sophisticated internet hoaxers into reporting that victims of the Bhopal disaster were to receive $12 billion compensation.

The bogus story was broadcast on BBC World television,
which is widely watched in India, and quickly picked up by the country’s media
and international wire services.

Maybe they can apologize to Israel for their anti semitic propaganda, too. What makes the frontpages everywhere else..doesn't make the beeb. Interesting.

...here's a quick review of their 'country profile' of Israel/Palestine
...in describing Mr. Sharon:

Mr Sharon had become closely identified with the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 when, as defence minister, he sent Israeli troops all the way to Beirut, where the PLO was then based.

He was forced from office in 1983 after an Israeli tribunal which found him "indirectly responsible" for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees by Israeli-allied right-wing Lebanese militiamen.

A wealthy cattle farmer, Mr Sharon has a house in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter. As housing minister in the early 1990s, he presided over the largest expansion of Jewish settlements since the 1967 war.

Wow, he's a monster, isn't he?

And Arafat?

In 1964 Mr Arafat left Kuwait for Jordan, from where Fatah began guerrilla raids into Israel. In 1968 he was elected chairman of the PLO, in effect putting Fatah at the core of the organisation.

Mr Arafat survived numerous setbacks. In 1970 he was expelled from Jordan. He redeployed into Lebanon but withdrew from Beirut after the 1982 Israeli invasion. In 1983 he was expelled from northern Lebanon by the Syrians.

In Tunisia, where the PLO had set up its headquarters after leaving Lebanon, Mr Arafat escaped an Israeli air strike and Israeli death squads. He also survived an air crash in the Libyan desert and recovered from a serious stroke.

How about 'direct responsibility' for the taking of thousands of Israeli lives? How about how his 'election' was a total joke? How about his 'indirect responsibility' for starting the '67 war with his 'direct responsibility' for attempting to destroy the water pipeline for the Negev Desert?

How about referring only to the IRA as terrorists, and not Al Qaeda? Lame*10.