MERGED - Prisoner Abuse - Page 14

kronas · 11-05-2004, 22:59

yeh i read this earlier on it was inevitable.

Flubflow · 14-05-2004, 18:34

Breaking News.
Piers Morgan, is stepping down from Editor of the Mirror.
No details as yet.

Earlier, there were reports that US shareholders in the Trinity Group (Mirror) were worried that Morgan was bringing the paper into disrepute with these fake photos (can any of the tabloids get any more disreputable than they already are?!?).

Also, the army are continuing to press the Mirror for a full apology.

Defiant · 14-05-2004, 18:37

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Originally Posted by Flubflow

Earlier, there were reports that US shareholders in the Trinity Group (Mirror) were worried that Morgan was bringing the paper into disrepute with these fake photos

bloody took them long enough. Why dont they run a new page with pictures entitled spot the odd one out. One of these pictures is by Piers Morgan can you guess which one lol

Tezcatlipoca · 14-05-2004, 18:38

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Originally Posted by Flubflow

Breaking News.
Piers Morgan, is stepping down from Editor of the Mirror.
No details as yet.

V interesting. Where did you hear that?

**Damien** · 14-05-2004, 18:39

I saw that on BBC news it is on the breaking news bar story coming soon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716151.stm

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

Flubflow · 14-05-2004, 18:49

I'm going to publish a genuine picture of Piers Morgan having intimate relations with a goat. It is up to him to prove it is fake or not.

Richard M · 14-05-2004, 18:58

http://news.google.co.uk/url?ntc=5M0...ws/3713857.stm

paulyoung666 · 14-05-2004, 19:02

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Originally Posted by Tezcatlipoca

V interesting. Where did you hear that?

now true

**Damien** · 14-05-2004, 19:03

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Originally Posted by Richard M

http://news.google.co.uk/url?ntc=5M0...ws/3713857.stm

Do they pay you to promote google as well

paulyoung666 · 14-05-2004, 19:05

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Originally Posted by Damien

Do they pay you to promote google as well

google is your friend , dont ever forget it

Tezcatlipoca · 14-05-2004, 19:10

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.

(snip)

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.

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".

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.

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

I saw that on BBC news it is on the breaking news bar story coming soon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716151.stm

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.

Xaccers · 14-05-2004, 19:13

Now if only they could bring chages against him

Defiant · 14-05-2004, 19:16

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Now if only they could bring chages against him

They should he's put British life's at risk plus put down the British rep abroad without any proof

TigaSefi · 14-05-2004, 19:27

he was an utter idiot for payin' out for photos that doesn't seem to have been verified properly. The Army seems to straight away recognise that the equipments weren't used in Iraq. I am glad Piers Morgan lost his job. Let hope no one is mug enough to employ him.

Xaccers · 14-05-2004, 19:31

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Originally Posted by TigaSefi

he was an utter idiot for payin' out for photos that doesn't seem to have been verified properly. The Army seems to straight away recognise that the equipments weren't used in Iraq. I am glad Piers Morgan lost his job. Let hope no one is mug enough to employ him.

Come off it, any tom dick or harry in the highstreet could see that there was something not quite right with them and they definitely needed serious investigation before parting with money let alone publishing them!

Idiot doesn't come close