You know, I'm beginning to see how it works at the BBC. Beginning? Pardon; I meant "continuing."

See, if it's a dictator they have a soft spot for . . . why, gosh, it sure is a shame about his atrocities against his own people and against the Kurds, but--the death penalty? Why are you Americans always on about the death penalty? Isn't that a little extreme?

And if it's a guy executed in Afghanistan for killing "one of his wives by pouring boiling water over her body," a man who "murdered his baby daughter by banging her repeatedly against a wall," why, obviously the proper BBC reaction is to report concerns by Amnesty International that said execution "may have been an attempt by powerful political players to eliminate a key witness to human rights abuses."

Obviously, because the accused bashing his infant daughter against a wall was so clearly incidental to the whole "execution" thing. Didn't influence the court's decision whatsoever. It was just a pretext to harass a "key witness to human rights abuses."

(Er, not that the BBC is going to go to the trouble to provide the reader with any factual support for Amnesty International's claim in that regard. Not so much as a link to follow for further research.)

But boy, let a guy tell Palestinian terrorists that he's through screwing around, and that guy merits one smear-job of a profile.