This from a report on an Iraqi rally for the release of Mrs Hassan, the kidnapped British aid worker:
Correspondent Claire Marshall said there was much support for Mrs Hassan amongst ordinary Iraqis, but that the rally was “completely unprecedented”.
If the BBC had bothered to read Iraq the Model they might be aware of the fact that a great many protests and rallies have been taking place all over the country since the beginning of the April insurgency, condemning kidnapping and terrorism in all its forms. I find the fact that the BBC takes notice of and reports such goings on, only when it’s politically expedient, highly disturbing.
However it seems less spurious than the mainstream media’s incessant parroting of the terrorists’ demands through hostages. For pities sakes is the Associated Press honestly asking me to believe that those demands were obtained by any means other than duress!? It is sick and achieves little more than the furthering of the terrorists’ goals.
I’ll listen to someone if they don’t have an AK-47 pointed at their head and aren’t being threatened with rape.
Do these people have any standards?
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at October 28, 2004 01:36 AM | TrackBack