RAPID RESPONSE MEDIA ALERT: THE LIBERATED AND THE DEAD

The BBC On The Haditha Massacre

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The title of the BBC news report was suitably 'balanced': 'Iraqi Deaths.' Not 'American Massacre,' or 'American Massacre Of Iraqi Civilians.' News anchor George Alagiah introduced the piece: "The US military is preparing to announce charges against a group of marines accused of killing Iraqi civilians. More than 20 people, some of them children, died in Haditha a year ago. But it's not clear whether they were killed deliberately." In May, the New York Times reported that the slaughter was "methodical in nature"...

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