»Olympia: Reporter named himself Bin Laden, placed fake bombs«

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A tabloid newspaper in Britain claimed to have exposed major security breaches at the Athens Olympics, after one of its reporters got a job at the main stadium without a thorough security check.

•	A reporter named himself "bin Laden"

•	There was no interview and no references were asked, despite his passport being "crammed with border entry stamps from countries known to harbour Al-Qaeda sympathisers such as Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon".

•	vehicles and bags were allowed onto the site without being searched

•	bomb detectors and scanners were not working

•	security agents failed to find three mock bombs which the reporter had placed in as many places.

•	On opening night the reporter entered the stadium without going through metal scanners, which had been put out of order due to power failures.

•	the reporter sat in the stands for the opening ceremony, before going into a tunnel beneath a VIP area where a posse of dignitaries -- including British Prime Minister Tony Blair -- were seated

Greece's public order minister George Voulgarakis on Sunday advised a British newspaper journalist to "read fewer police fiction novels", adding that articles such as those appearing in today's edition of the Sunday Mirror tabloid were a "deep insult to journalism.

Angry crazy shocked

posted by knn

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The Mirror, the Sun and The Daily Sport are shite, wouldnt wipe my arse with them as i would feel violated!

posted by Crossfade

Criminal?

Didn't they make it illegal to fake a terrorist threat?

I'm sure it was in response to the "white powder in the mail" scares, they started arresting people for sending talc "as a joke".

Besides I thought journalism was about reporting news not making it.

Then I suppose the tabloids are little to do with journalism.
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posted by Marl64

That a investigative reporters duty

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Didn't they make it illegal to fake a terrorist threat?

He didn't fake a threat. He didn't call the police and say "There is a bomb that will explode at 3 o'clock".

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Besides I thought journalism was about reporting news not making it.

He is investigating. That's also a duty of a journalist, otherwise many affairs would not be uncovered.

And what the minister is doing is trying to cover up his security failures by shooting at the messanger.

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