Whilst Al Jazeera has shown some extremely distastful footage, we are over looking the fact that this has been relayed into our homes by Western News agencys. These reporters are all after a scoop and will do almost anything to get it.
Many of us in the UK will have seen the recent front page pictures of 2 dead Iraqi soldiers in a trench containing a white flag. If they had been British or American nationals there would have been outrage, but only 24 hours later it has been forgotten about.
On the plus side, the fact that these POW's have been shown on TV means their families know they are alive, and their chances of going home at the end of all this are virtually guaranteed.