I see Sky are now pixellating faces of Iraqi POWs - clearly they have been told their own footage of these is breaching the GC - however minor a breach, it is a breach and no doubt has embarassed HMG and the US.
What I really do not understand is the level of surprise. The Iraqis did this before, it should have been expected. Doesn't half make the military spokesmen look stupid when they say 'nonsense' when asked if the Iraqis have POWs, only to be presented with video tape of them minutes later. Similarly with the AH-64 loss today, denied until the video tape of it is shown.
Al J is showing a lot of things not appearing on Western news channels, including extremely graphic images of what was said to be civvy casualties of air raids. I do worry that our media is glossing over anything nasty we
may have caused on the basis of 'taste and decency' yet were quite happy to show gruesome images of dead civvies killed by Saddam's troops
before the war started to try and prove to the public what a nasty bloke Saddam was.
This does not do the
PR effort any good at all - it's looking like the BBC, Sky etc. are simply government mouthpieces revelling in all those gosh-wow explosions in Baghdad. Imagine how that looks to the rest of the Arab world. Al Qaeda must be struggling to cope with the amount of new volunteers at the moment
And then the scum at Sky etc. repeatedly show 'what may be the moment when an RAF Tornado was shot down'. Well cheers, I bet the families and friends of the crew are delighted to see that bit of footage played repeatedly. Beggars belief, it really does. I don't think there's an ounce of human decency among these sods.