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BBC suspends talkshow after anti-Arab outburst
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LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC suspended a popular daily talkshow on Friday after its presenter branded Arabs "suicide bombers, limb amputators and women repressors" in a newspaper article.

Show presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk, a former parliamentarian with the ruling Labour Party, later expressed "very deep regret" over the column which questioned whether Arab nations had contributed anything to civilisation.

The BBC said it would suspend his daily talkshow "Kilroy" from Monday while it conducts an internal investigation into his article in the Sunday Express newspaper.

The article, headlined "We owe the Arabs nothing", asked: "What do (Arabs) think we feel about them? That we admire them for being suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors?"
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