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Sack the Editors!

Chris Herz | 15.05.2004 18:33 | Indymedia | World

The ownership of the Mirror sacked its editor after admitting the photos of British soldier abusing Iraqi captives had been faked.

Quite justly, the editor of the Daily Mirror, Piers Morgan was dismissed by the ownership following the admission that a couple of photographs had been faked. These pictures, showing British soldiers following the example of their US leaders, beating and tormenting captured Iraqis were published and had created a sensation here in the USA as well as in Britain.

Question: When will the editors of all the newspapers and TV and radio which unhesitatingly published every lie by Tony Blair and George Bush share the same fate?
When will those who allowed their media to become the stenographers to power, beating the drums for war need a career change?

I'm a mere foreigner, a US citizen, so perhaps I do not understand the rules in British journalism.

Chris Herz

Chris Herz
- e-mail: cdherz44@yahoo.com

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deliberate set up

15.05.2004 19:11

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it seems to me that the mirror was deliberately set up, possibly from government "spin doctors" They have always hated having a tabloid paper taking a strong anti-war stance. First we had the Hutton whitewash targeting the BBC when they tried to voice our concerns and expose the truth, now this. What next, the Independant, Indymedia? Bring it on! Once again, the real issues, such as we had no right to invade in the first place, and all armies/racist brainwashed thugs use unpleasant methods when dealing with prisoners (who were probably arrested completely arbitrarily anyway) have been sidetracked into an irrelevant issue of were the photos real or fake? Who cares? End the illegal occupation now!

speculative


if these didn't make the government jumpy

15.05.2004 19:47

then these two [apparently attributed to the mirror] also
should make 'em sit up and notice...
notice the military give the party line:


'veee are thoroughly ivestigating zee alleged allegations....JA mein fuhrer!'



30 May, 2003:

"Allegations Iraqi prisoners of war were mistreated by UK troops are being investigated, after photographs allegedly showing the abuse were discovered.
A British soldier has been arrested on suspicion of taking the pictures, including one showing an Iraqi, bound and gagged, hanging from netting on a fork-lift truck."

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2949282.stm



Jun 6 2003

"The suspect is a married staff sergeant serving in the Bedfordshire-based Intelligence Corps, it was reported today.
According to the Daily Mirror, he is the head of a team specially trained in interrogation and information analysis.
He was taken into custody in the southern port of Umm Qasr after a superior officer used his laptop computer, the paper reported.
Intelligence Corps soldiers and officers are considered to be among the most IT literate in the Army.
No officers were available for comment at the Defence Intelligence and Security Centre, the Intelligence Corps' headquarters at Chicksands in Bedfordshire."

 http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/war/latest/content_objectid=13039071_method=full_siteid=50102_headline=-UK-soldier-held-in-Iraq-over-child-porn-name_page.html

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