Speaking of the Press & all the abuse stories.......
I bought the latest Private Eye today. Excellent as usual.
The 1st inside page has a bit about The Sun & their treatment of the whole abuse thing....
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Originally Posted by (C) Private Eye, no1106, 14 May - 27 May 2004
The Sun pulled no punches in its condemnation of the Mirror for printing dubious photos which supposedly show the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
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The Sun was rather less sensitive about its own front page story of May 2003, when a soldier from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was arrested after trying to develop photographs of colleagues stringing up Iraqi PoWs from a fork-lift truck & forcing them to simulate sex acts. Unable to print the photos themselves - they had been confiscated by the police - the Sun commissioned a vivid set of "artist's impressions" which it spalshed across three pages while warning readers that this was just the beginning of a "hornet's nest of horror" which was waiting to emerge.
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The rest of the national press followed up on this abuse story, plus the MOD confirmed that it was going to investigate the abuse.
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Originally Posted by (C) Private Eye, no1106, 14 May - 27 May 2004
When the news emerged this week that a number of the regiment's members are to be prosecuted over the incident, the Sun dealt with this belated confirmation of its scoop by, er, ignoring it completely & devoting its front page instead to an editorial "saluting a nation's heroes".
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Of course, the Eye does not spare the Mirror either. One example: There is an interesting bit which points out how last May, in contrast to the current Mirror opinion/excuse (that abuse by British troops is happening, so even if the photos were fake they have helped bring the abuse to light), the Daily Mirror ran to the defence of Lt Col Tim Collins & declared that any allegations of abuse of Iraqis by British troops must be "total rubbish". [interesting side point: The Sunday Mirror did not seem to care for Collins, though, as last year it ran a "fabricated story about him [Collins] allowing his troops to open fire on surrendering Iraqis". Collins sued the Mirror Group & won significant damages].
Couple of recent stories mentioning the alleged abuse by members of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers:
http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/05...1/01_iraq.html
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Originally Posted by C4 News
....the RMP Special Investigations Branch has probed a case in which soldiers photographed the alleged torture of Iraqi PoWs left suspended in netting from a forklift truck.
Soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers have been questioned following the discovery of the images, in which PoWs were gagged and bound.
It is understood photographic developers initially called police last May after they became concerned about a number of pictures on a roll of film which had been handed into their shop for processing.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...n.abuse.blair/
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Originally Posted by CNN
[MOD spokesman] dismissed as "speculation" a story in the Sunday Times that troops from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers would face charges relating to the sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
"The Royal Military police have completed their investigation and forwarded their recommendations to the Army prosecuting authority," the defense spokesman said. "So the case is currently with them, and they will decide whether or not charges will be brought."
The Sunday Times reported that military police recommended the prosecution of three soldiers following a year-long investigation of photos appearing to show Iraqi prisoners in British custody being forced to engage in homosexual acts.
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Originally Posted by Damien
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LOL,
Bye bye, Piers!
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Originally Posted by Damien
shame it happened today we will have to wait until next friday before we see Ian Hislops reaction on Have i got news for you  |
I can't wait! Heh, Hislop will love this.