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Thanks Ace had not heard that bit of the news....anybody going to tell them where Saddam is I wonder??

oh, he's holed up somewhere in iraq, my money is an assisted suicide, as he's too much of a coward to pull the trigger on himself.......but he WON'T be captured alive, and ultimately stand trial.

They used helicopter gunships and 20 missiles against 4 men and a 14 year old child - are we any less barbaric?

Four months a go they had their own country, now for no apparent justifiable reason they along with 1000's of other Iraqi's have been murdered and for what? World peace, huh, they only had ak47's and rpg's where was the risk to us?

There has been enough brutality and savage revenge against innocent people in this world since 9/11, I suspect those fallen will be turning in their graves with disgust.

Its just that a few months ago when the Iraqi media decided to film the dead and captured American and British soldiers it was apparently a disgrace to do it for such blantantly evil propoganda purposes. It could be said that the showing of dead and captured POWs was in order to prove to the world that they had really been captured.
Apart from showing the world that the USA supposedly has the upper hand what will showing the bodies prove? Seeing as one son was so badly wounded in the face that the dental records results couldnt be 100% certain what do they aim to prove?
I remember thinking last night after seeing the sky newspaper review the Got Em headline on the Sun is extremely familiar to their much criticised Gotcha headline re the sinking of the Belgrano warship in the Falklands War.
And you just know that if an Iraqi managed to kill members of the Bush family it would be a different story. Sure,they may not be involved directly in anything, but neither most probably was Saddams grandson who died in the raid. But if an Iraqi managed to kill an innocent Bush relative during an assasination attempt on the president(which of course would be unjustified even though he invaded a country which posed little or no threat to the USA and hunted down and killed its leadership)you just know there would be more media attention.
The guys did deserve death but what was done is still legally unsound.


And you can bet your life that Fox News,along with a few other brown nosed stations who refused to screen any footage of POWs due to their horrendous arse kissing attitude to Bush and gimp,will be showing the pictures.
And can somebody remind me why the pics of the dead Brits/Americans were never shown?Seeing as the Mirror recently had a front page photo of Marc Vivien Foe lying dead with his eyes open on the front page it certainly wasnt a question of bad taste was it?Fuck the whole media-in particular the hilarious patriotism of The Scum which seems like something out of soviet or nazi times re its coverage and the arse kissing racist entertainment it puts out.

Well, they did show them after all. Bloodied and broken. At least they enjoyed the good life and went quickly as opposed to the drawn out torture and lingering death many of their countymen suffered.

Sounds as if it quite a pitched battle & I read that a 14 year old kid was killed too, still shooting at the Yanks even after the others were killed.

Hi Ace

Whether or not its right or wrong for the Americans to release the pictures, there is no compulsion on an Editor ro publish them.

The hypocricy of The Dail Mail is whats wrong. To have the headline BARBARIC? and highlight on those saying its wrong, yet at the same time publishling the pictures. Trying to have it both ways.

The pics were published for Iraqi consumption and I think it was right if deemed necessary to prove their death. But equally I believe Fleet Street editors should have got together and agreed not to publish them in the UK. That would have earned respect rather than disgust at another example of media feeding frenzy.

Fully agree about this nasty little paper, that i unfortunately read. It did bang on about the barbarity of the pics released and yet did show them in COLOUR inside the paper, albeit smaller than the pics splashed over the front pages of other tabloids.
Definately a case of double standards!!!!