BBC uninvites anti-American MP to discuss attack

Following word that the BBC packed a studio audience for one of its talk shows about the WTC attack with pro-Arab supporters, the London Times is reporting that the publicly funded broadcaster had invited a fierce critic of British and American Middle East policy to appear on the same program, then had uninvited him. The Times said that George Galloway, a Labor Party member of parliament, had agreed to cut short a vacation in Portugal in order to appear on the program and was on his way to the airport when he received word that his invitation was withdrawn without explanation. Meanwhile, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke has sent an apology to former U.S. Ambassador Philip Lader, who was the target of attack from the pro-Arabs during the broadcast. The BBC had previously defended the program.