News of the World

[Scotty T]

Please tell me I'm not the only one disgusted by the irresponsible actions of the News of the World in respect to the publishing of these latest images from Iraq.

 

Our armed forces are under immense pressure as it out there, without British newspapers sh@t stirring the already volatile situation. It now transpires these Iraqis were detained shortly after a mortor attack on a compound used by the British Army. I completely fail to see the logic or reasoning behind publishing such photos on the front cover of a British Sunday tabloid.

 

Do they or most of there readers have any idea what its like for armed forces personnel operating on the streets of Iraq? NO

 

I never really bought the paper, but now, never again, and if I have my way neither will anyone I know.

 

Scotty

[corydoras]

Please tell me I'm not the only one disgusted by the irresponsible actions of the News of the World in respect to the publishing of these latest images from Iraq.

 

Our armed forces are under immense pressure as it out there, without British newspapers sh@t stirring the already volatile situation. It now transpires these Iraqis were detained shortly after a mortor attack on a compound used by the British Army. I completely fail to see the logic or reasoning behind publishing such photos on the front cover of a British Sunday tabloid.

 

Do they or most of there readers have any idea what its like for armed forces personnel operating on the streets of Iraq? NO

 

I never really bought the paper, but now, never again, and if I have my way neither will anyone I know.

 

Scotty

I won't buy ANY newspaper!

[yoxer]

I would expect the same amount of readers would have no idea what its like for Iraqis on the streets of Iraq

[Scotty T]

I would expect the same amount of readers would have no idea what its like for Iraqis on the streets of Iraq

 

Meaning???

[deanbmw]

agreed... its ok not to print cartoons that would have put them in a dangerous situation from demonstrators, but its ok to put our lads in iraq danger.....BTW the only reason the newspapers over here didnt print the cartoons was due to newsagents refuseing to sell them. In an interview with an ex-editor of the sun on skynews he clamed that they printed something that muslims didnt like afew years ago, and had to go to every mosque in brittan to appologize because muslim newsagents refused to sell the paper. which was costing them millions.

[corydoras]

Meaning???

Knowing yoxer, meaning exactly what it says on the tin mate. You imply by your post that the majority of us can have no idea how much fun it is to be a British squaddy posted in Iraq, I think what yoxer is trying to say is that the vast majority of us in the UK can have no idea what it is like to be an Iraqi living in the streets of Iraq. Each day when I awake I say a little prayer thanking my maker that I am neither of the above.

Edited February 15, 2006 by corydoras

[DJMCJERICO]

I'm sure theres a saying "alls fair in love and war"

 

Give it a few weeks and there will be a new interigation method, probably involving a cup of tea and a packet of hob nobs

[five bellies]

I'm sure theres a saying "alls fair in love and war"

 

Give it a few weeks and there will be a new interigation method, probably involving a cup of tea and a packet of hob nobs

 

 

Ye Gads, Any thing But that!

[chesters1]

mmmm hob nobs but hey i cant afford them so why give them away ,perhaps if the MOD send me a packet i wont mention that to the iraqi's little has changed between saddam and their "liberation" ,plenty of deaths (now with bombing rather than disapearing) nice friendly beatings + the introduction of "insurgants" and "extremists" to jolly them along and stop them getting bored .

i pity our troops and certainly would enjoy beating stone throwers up myself if i were in their position but if your liberating a country from a tyrant and act just like him people even foreign ones get a tad fed up.

 

are troops that film their acts any different to these happy slappers we despise , we say these happy slappers are stupid filming themseves and must be thick to do it as its evidence that convicts them couldnt this be also a reflection on the minority (i hope) of troops we send and act no better! stupid but government sponsored stupidity that should be stopped.

as for printing it why not !we didnt NOT print the scenes of the attack by frenzied iraqi's on those personell carriers incase they offended the iraqi's so its only balance that we get bad press when its printed,if the beatees were infact the mortar users bullets rather than fists should have been used it is a war after all

Edited February 15, 2006 by chesters1

[Dan]

as for printing it why not !we didnt NOT print the scenes of the attack by frenzied iraqi's on those personell carriers incase they offended the iraqi's so its only balance that we get bad press when its printed,if the beatees were infact the mortar users bullets rather than fists should have been used it is a war after all

 

 

This was 2 years ago, did it reallly serve the British interest publishing this video? the fact that the Basra Gov is now not co operating with the British forces puts greater strain on the relationship and puts our soldiers at risk.

 

The only reason they published this was to sell papers. The decent thing to do would have been to hand it over with the threat to publish if the perpetrators were not brought to account.

 

Quite frankly I am disgusted with the press, they make no effort to write the truth, at least not until theyve fiddled with it to sell papers. Anyone who has had a story reported will know that they rarely actually report the facts. One MP joked today that the fair trading laws should apply to papers after they published rubbish about the likely abolition of the Pint. It was of course nonsence but when has that got in the way of a good story

 

Dan