VOA Broadcaster Spews Anti-American Venom

(Dhaka, Bangladesh) To have the Voice of America (VOA) spewing anti-American propaganda is inexcusable. Some action should be taken to correct the situation.

From yesterday's AsianTribune.com:

Voice of America (VOA) Dhaka correspondent, Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, called today's revelation of a mega terror plot a "game of the British government." Chowdhury made his comments on the program, "Today's Newspaper," shown on Channel I in Dhaka. Chowdhury went on to accuse "western governments," and in particular the United States and the United Kingdom, of deliberately fabricating the terror plot to deflect world attention from what he called "Hezbollah victories."

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Chowdhury, who is also editor of the Bangla paper, Manavzamin, claimed that airport security has become too tight for such a plot to succeed and that if the revelations of the plot are true, "then there is no security" on the airlines. An employee of an American government agency, VOA , Chowdhury said, rather that the claims about the plot are part of a "conspiracy against Islam" by the United States.

Since the Voice of America is an organization of the United States government charged with promoting understanding between America and other nations, the actions of Matiur Rahman Chowdhury are despicable. I believe that he should be quickly and disgracefully fired. Furthermore, the VOA needs to review its staff to assure there are no other radical Islamic nutjobs working against the interests of the United States.

With a VOA broadcaster spewing outlandish conspiracy theories, is it any wonder that so many people believe them?

Companion post at The Jawa Report.