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Remember the Jessica Lynch affair? National hero? Bravely rescued?
It was a load of crap.
She had no bullet or stab wounds. There were no armed Iraqi forces around the hospital she was in. She was perfectly safe. The doctor attending to her even tried to smuggle her out in an ambulance two days before she was "rescued" and - guess what happened - the US forces started to open fire on them.
The Americans knew she was being looked after well (in fact so well that she had one out of two nurses at the hospital all to herself, and the hospital staff even gave blood for her), and they knew this because they'd been to the area a few days earlier and looked around, as well as asking civilians who'd told them that the Fedayeen had fled.
But they had to turn it into a Hollywood movie - one doctor at the hospital said "They all ran in shouting 'Go, go, go', it was like something out of a Jackie Chan movie". The doctors also said that she was a victim of an RTA. Otherwise known as ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. No bullet wounds, as we were told.
Carefully position some cameras, carefully edit the footage, carefully turn public opinion in your favour.
This will probably be on the Guardian website, as that's the paper I got it from. There's also a programme documenting it on Sunday.
It was a load of crap.
She had no bullet or stab wounds. There were no armed Iraqi forces around the hospital she was in. She was perfectly safe. The doctor attending to her even tried to smuggle her out in an ambulance two days before she was "rescued" and - guess what happened - the US forces started to open fire on them.
The Americans knew she was being looked after well (in fact so well that she had one out of two nurses at the hospital all to herself, and the hospital staff even gave blood for her), and they knew this because they'd been to the area a few days earlier and looked around, as well as asking civilians who'd told them that the Fedayeen had fled.
But they had to turn it into a Hollywood movie - one doctor at the hospital said "They all ran in shouting 'Go, go, go', it was like something out of a Jackie Chan movie". The doctors also said that she was a victim of an RTA. Otherwise known as ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. No bullet wounds, as we were told.
Carefully position some cameras, carefully edit the footage, carefully turn public opinion in your favour.
This will probably be on the Guardian website, as that's the paper I got it from. There's also a programme documenting it on Sunday.
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I want them to make a film about the British human shield, whose wife asked the PM in person not to bomb the facility that he was shielding. The PM said that he cannot give any such assurances. Anyway as soon as the war started he came back to Britain.
What a brave person and he certainly stood by his convictions, can he be portrayed by Jeffery Archer and his wife by Claire Short perhaps?
What a brave person and he certainly stood by his convictions, can he be portrayed by Jeffery Archer and his wife by Claire Short perhaps?
Wont somebody think of the children? And the liberated, grateful Iraqi civilians.
Does Basra have water and power yet? Or the hospitals?
Does Basra have water and power yet? Or the hospitals?
I can't wait for the Hollywood movie.
Remember the Jessica Lynch affair? National hero? Bravely rescued?
It was a load of crap.
She had no bullet or stab wounds. There were no armed Iraqi forces around the hospital she was in. She was perfectly safe. The doctor attending to her even tried to smuggle her out in an ambulance two days before she was "rescued" and - guess what happened - the US forces started to open fire on them.
The Americans knew she was being looked after well (in fact so well that she had one out of two nurses at the hospital all to herself, and the hospital staff even gave blood for her), and they knew this because they'd been to the area a few days earlier and looked around, as well as asking civilians who'd told them that the Fedayeen had fled.
But they had to turn it into a Hollywood movie - one doctor at the hospital said "They all ran in shouting 'Go, go, go', it was like something out of a Jackie Chan movie". The doctors also said that she was a victim of an RTA. Otherwise known as ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. No bullet wounds, as we were told.
Carefully position some cameras, carefully edit the footage, carefully turn public opinion in your favour.
This will probably be on the Guardian website, as that's the paper I got it from. There's also a programme documenting it on Sunday.
It was a load of crap.
She had no bullet or stab wounds. There were no armed Iraqi forces around the hospital she was in. She was perfectly safe. The doctor attending to her even tried to smuggle her out in an ambulance two days before she was "rescued" and - guess what happened - the US forces started to open fire on them.
The Americans knew she was being looked after well (in fact so well that she had one out of two nurses at the hospital all to herself, and the hospital staff even gave blood for her), and they knew this because they'd been to the area a few days earlier and looked around, as well as asking civilians who'd told them that the Fedayeen had fled.
But they had to turn it into a Hollywood movie - one doctor at the hospital said "They all ran in shouting 'Go, go, go', it was like something out of a Jackie Chan movie". The doctors also said that she was a victim of an RTA. Otherwise known as ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT. No bullet wounds, as we were told.
Carefully position some cameras, carefully edit the footage, carefully turn public opinion in your favour.
This will probably be on the Guardian website, as that's the paper I got it from. There's also a programme documenting it on Sunday.
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