vrijdag 24 september 2010

The Mainstream Media 3

Look at the remarkable way the BBC reports:


Ahmadinejad: 9/11 'suspect event'

An airliner flies into the World Trade Center's south tower as the north tower burns on 11 September 2001
The Twin Towers collapsed after being hit by hijacked airliners
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York as a "suspect event" and queried the death toll.
"A building collapsed and they said 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," he said in a speech in the holy city of Qom.
He did not mention the planes hijackers flew into the twin skyscrapers.
On the fifth anniversary, the names of 2,749 people killed in New York were read out at a ceremony.
"Four or five years ago a suspect event took place in New York," President Ahmadinejad said.
"Under this pretext they [the United States] attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then a million people have been killed only in Iraq," he said in the speech broadcast on state-run television.
Iraqi woman mourns relative killed in clashes, Sadr City, Baghdad (29.03.2008)
Estimates of the number of lives lost in Iraq vary.
A World Health Organization survey in January this year suggested that 151,000 civilians had died between March 2003 and June 2006.
This was roughly in line with Iraqi government estimates, although one study in the Lancet medical journal put the toll at 655,000, while a UK-based polling agency suggested in September 2007 that up to 1.2m people may have died because of the conflict.




See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7350830.stm

And for some honest reporting one can read this: http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060314_iraq_body_count.php 

And more remarkable BBC-reporting: http://www.medialens.org/search.php


Read all about it!!!

1 opmerking:

Sonja zei

Diederik van Hoogstraten in de Volkskrant:

"Waarop Ahmadinejad vrijdag doorging op de kwestie. ‘Ik sprak geen oordeel uit. Maar vindt u niet dat het tijd is voor een onderzoekscommissie?’ Kennelijk is de Iraniër zich niet bewust van de uitputtende onderzoeken die jaren geleden zijn afgerond."

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