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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (5044)	3/29/2003 3:30:10 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 21614

This is neat.... 4 Executions A series of images broadcast on the Arabic television channel al-Jazeera have ignited one of the biggest controversies of the war. The channel showed lingering pictures of the bodies of two British soldiers, Sapper Luke Allsop and Staff Sergeant Simon Cullingworth, who had been caught in an ambush in southern Iraq. The Sun claimed the "sickening" al-Jazeera film showed the two men had been executed. "One trooper had a massive chest wound and the other's neck and upper chest was covered in blood," the report said. "Both men's faces were clearly visible on the film - shot at close range in the border town of Safwan." During a press conference with George Bush at Camp David on Thursday evening, Tony Blair claimed the soldiers were the victims of "an act of cruelty beyond all human comprehension". But the prime minister's official spokesman later began backtracking from that position, saying there was no "absolute evidence" that they had been executed. British commanders in Qatar also downplayed the story, pointing out that the pictures were of poor quality. Yesterday, the Mirror led with Luke Allsop's sister Nina emphatically denying that he had been executed. She said his colonel had told them he had died instantly when the vehicle was ambushed. But Downing Street was still insisting that it had acted on the basis of information from army commanders. media.guardian.co.uk Even after the British government held a news conference admitting that they had no reason to believe that the British POWs were executed, Bush is still asserting on the PR stump that they were executed. I've yet to find a US news source that has published that the "executions" were false accusations. P.S. the article has some other interesting points and is worth a read.