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Originally Posted by Xaccers
are the soldiers faces shown?
if so it will be easy to prove its a fake
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Nope, the faces wern't shown. I was thinking it could be faked by the anti-war protestors as they have a huge agenda to push and a vested interest in undermining the war effort. What made me think away from that was that the press and the army superiors seemed to know a lot about the people involved, and that they have even suspended the people involved. Now if that turns out to be untrue, I think the possibility of it being faked is quite high.
Danielf: That's fair enough. I wasn't suggesting the people go unpunished at all (i've always said they should have been punished), but it wasn't the army's desicision to release the photos of course, but the Press. But given the predicted huge human cost in lives and trust because of these photos, do you still think they should have been released anyway, even with the soldiers being punished?
I think about it both ways. If I was the boss of ITV News, I would think that releasing the pictures into the public domain would do huge amounts of irrepairable damage, including lost lives, so I would not want to release it. But i'm sure with the money and reputation involved, that some news boss somewhere would come out with it anyway, so it would be best if I did it first.