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BBC Knowingly Spreads Arab Propaganda
The BBC is openly lying about the Fallujah offensive, and Last Night’s BBC News blows the whistle. (Hat tip: Luigi.)
On Monday, Newsnight interviewed Fadil al-Badrani who, we were told, lives in central Fallujah. We were not told Mr al-Badrani’s occupation. Nor were we told how the BBC managed to find him and arrange a telephone interview. The viewer was left with the impression that Mr al-Badrani was merely an unfortunate civilian trapped in the city. He described an apocalyptic scene. The Americans have turned Fallujah into “hell,” he said.
On Tuesday, Mr al-Badrani was back on the telephone — this time identified as an Iraqi journalist. The situation in Fallujah is “extremely tragic,” he claimed. Civilians are stranded in the city: “many people have died due to lack of medical care”; “Fallujah’s makeshift hospital has been bombed by American planes this morning and all its medical staff have been killed.”
Mr al-Badrani’s description is, apparently, not only first-hand but it’s presented without the censorship advisory that accompanies the reports of the BBC’s journalists embedded with US forces. Surely, then, Mr al-Badrani is an especially reliable source of information? Surely the BBC, a world-respected news organisation, wouldn’t accidentally broadcast propaganda (about the killing of civilians and bombing of a hospital) intended to incite anti-American hostility? The BBC, committed to accurate and impartial reporting, wouldn’t fall for something so transparently dishonest, would they?
No, they wouldn’t. In fact, there’s nothing unintentional about any of this. The BBC knows exactly who Fadil al-Badrani is and they know full well that he is lying.
UPDATE at 11/10/04 6:48:24 pm:
Here’s another report from Fadhil Badrani: Defiance amid carnage.
I also saw four crippled US tanks and three abandoned Humvees.
In the Hasbiyyah area, I counted the bodies of at least six US soldiers lying on the ground.
Some of them were badly mangled with various bits blown off. Others were in better condition, as if they had taken small-arms fire.
I noticed two of the US soldiers were still clutching their guns tightly across their chests. But most of their weapons were missing.
Some of the dead are beginning to rot in the streets.
The reader who forwarded this notes:
There is no way a civilian would be walking around the unclaimed corpses of 6 US forces in Fallujah. It just doesn’t work that way.
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