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...Mirror editor Piers Morgan quickly countered: "The Daily Mirror does not accept that the MoD has proved these photographs are faked.
"Nor will we accept that they are not genuine images until incontrovertible evidence is produced to the contrary."
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This is the *only* time I can think of where the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" does not apply.
The Mirror have claimed that the pictures are genuine, it should be up to them to *prove* this claim.
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Earlier the newspaper issued a statement saying Mr Hoon's initial comments about the truck "were obviously designed to divert attention from the much bigger and more important issue" of the abuse it had exposed.
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Which sounds to me like The Mirror trying desperately to divert attention from the hole they've dug themselves into...