The media has an agenda and lies? Say it isn't so! Bruce Bloggers catch UK Times in US Marines photo smear.
Chalk up another amazing discovery by Michelle <http://www.michellemalkin.com> Malkin and fellow blogger Joe G <http://coonassintexas.blogspot.com/> . The UK Times published an article on June 1 headlined " 'Massacre Marines blinded by hate.'" Right next to the headline, a photo showed <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2205982,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&a ttr=World> row of Iraqi bodies with their hands tied behind their back, massacred execution style. The work of US Marines? Not so. The bloggers tracked the photo back to a Newsweek article from May, six months before the alleged "Haditha massacre" in November. Writes Malkin: Read the (Newsweek) caption:"Insurgents in Haditha executed 19 Shiite fishermen and National Guardsmen in a sports stadium." Our Marines did not kill these people.The terrorists did. Michelle Malkin promptly emailed the editors of the UK Times, and received a quick personal apology from Gerard Baker. That's fine. The slanderous photo has been removed from the website, with the following note: Note: This story originally appeared with a picture of slain Iraqis whose caption erroneously described the scene as being related to the alleged incidents in al-Haditha. The image was in fact from a separate incident in the area in which Iraqi insurgents are believed to have massacred local fishermen. We apologise for the mistake.] But public slander deserves an equally public explanation and apology. You know that that picture went around the world a dozen times, especially in the Muslim media, and is now taken for gospel by millions of people. After all, the Times published it. Americans should demand equal headlines, and equal coverage for the libelous error. Under UK libel law, the Times could be sued for large damages if it does not publicly explain and retract this false and libelous accusation. A footnote is not enough. This lie must not stand. James Lewis 6 5 06 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> You can search right from your browser? It's easy and it's free. See how. http://us.click.yahoo.com/_7bhrC/NGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
