MEDIA ALERT: THE BBC BURIES THE TRUTH WITH THE DEAD IN IRAQ

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Last week, yet more innocent civilian lives were claimed by a US air attack in Iraq. How many times this tragedy has been repeated across that country is completely hidden from public view - a second, deeper tragedy. According to Iraqi police major Khedr Hussein, 32 people were killed in the attack at Ishaqi, 90 km north of Baghdad. The local mayor, Amer Alwan, said that US aircraft bombed two homes around 1 a.m last Friday morning. Of 25 bodies pulled from the rubble so far, eight were women and six were children. And yet the BBC news website chose to headline the US military's claim that "al-Qaeda militants" had been killed in the attack...

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