-Caveat Lector- Blair like's it nice and clean. "Please don't show me the bodies." "They're in bad taste."
Tony Blair: GET A BLOODY GRIP ON YOURSELF! THIS IS WHAT WAR IS ABOUT: KILLING! IF YOU CAN'T STAND TO SEE IT, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT! http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,922884,00.html Blair expresses 'horror' at al-Jazeera Jason Deans Thursday March 27, 2003 Prime minister Tony Blair and the commander of UK forces in the Gulf have expressed outrage at al-Jazeera's decision to broadcast footage of what are believed to be dead British soldiers. Mr Blair expressed "horror" at the deaths and the broadcast of pictures of the bodies on the Arab satellite TV network, according to a spokesman. Air Marshall Brian Burridge, the commander of UK forces in the Gulf, added that al-Jazeera's decision to show the footage was "deplorable" and a "flagrant breach" of the Geneva convention. "All media must be aware of the limits of taste and decency," Mr Burridge said at a briefing at the Allied Command Centre in Qatar earlier today. He also urged journalists not to become unwitting tools of the "Iraqi propaganda machine". The video footage broadcast by al-Jazeera yesterday shows what is believed to have been the ultimate fate of two Desert Rats who went missing in fighting around the town of Zubayr, 15 miles outside Iraq's second city of Basra. They had been classified as missing after their Land Rover was ambushed on Sunday. Al-Jazeera also broadcast footage of what it said were two UK prisoners but there was no confirmation the men were British. The footage showed the two dead soldiers spreadeagled in a dusty road on their backs near their vehicle. One of the soldiers appeared to have been shot in the chest while the other's wounds were unclear. The footage, which lasted less than 30 seconds, also showed people climbing over the vehicle as the camera filmed the bodies. One man shifted one of the bodies around with his foot. After showing the two dead soldiers, the film cut to show the two prisoners. They were both thick-set black men, one with dreadlocked hair. The prisoners were indoors and surrounded by people as they both stared straight into the camera without saying anything. This is the third time in four days that shocking film of allied soldiers, captured or killed, has been shown on television. Seven US army mechanics died and five were taken prisoner on Sunday after they took a wrong turn and ran into an ambush in Nasiriyah. A video broadcast later on al-Jazeera showed several of the troops with bullet wounds to the head which suggested they may have been executed. The five captured soldiers, including a woman, were paraded on TV in breach of the Geneva convention governing PoWs, which states they cannot be shown on television if it is to degrade them or expose them to "public curiosity". A day later footage of two US pilots was broadcast after their Apache attack helicopter came down near Karbala, south of Baghdad. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
