Dirty deeds, dirtier lies
Two parallel news stories in the last week demonstrate an apparent unwillingness of the media to make even fairly obvious connections between events, especially when it comes to 'fighting terror':
1. The two British special forces soldiers killed last week in an ambush in Helmand, Afghanistan were operating in an area where there was considerable anger over bounced cheques paid by the Brits to supposedly stop farmers growing opium poppies.
2. The two American soldiers slain last month after being kidnapped in Yusufiya, Iraq were from the same regiment as five other soldiers currently being investigated for raping and killing a young woman in that same area.
In both of these cases a measure of plain retaliation for percieved wrongs is evident; however the media prefers the legend of 'insurgency' and 'terror' to admitting bad blood caused by Coalition actions. With journalists publishing (even researching) stories that undermine official credibility increasingly being harassed and punished on an unprecedented scale, perhaps the willingness to correlate and publish is diminishing.
Item posted by AutoEditor at 9:38 am ::
