Reuters Employee Fired For Death Threat On Blogger

A Reuters employee has been suspended after sending a death threat to an American blogger. The message, sent from a Reuters internet account, read: “I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut.”

It was sent to the owner of a weblog, a popular site which often backs Israel and highlights jihadist terrorist activities.

In the threat, the Reuters staff member, who has not been named, left his email address as “zionistpig” at hotmail.com.

The owner of the weblog, did an IP lookup on the sender which reveald that he/she was using an account at none other than Reuters News.
After bringing the threat to the attention of Reuters, he was told by the news organization’s Global Head of Communications, Ed Williams: “I can confirm that an employee has been suspended pending further investigation. The individual was not an employee of Reuters’ news division.”