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muriel_volestrangler

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24. Did the BBC show his hanging?

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 06:18 AM

Sep 2014

As far as I can tell, they stopped the video before the hanging:

On its Web site, the BBC published the camera phone video, nested in a news report, and alongside a written piece describing its contents. No subtitles with this one, but a BBC reporter narrates the video. Like the CNN clip, the BBC piece cuts before Saddam drops. The network acknowledges that it does not know the origin of the video, but notes that the scene it shows is similar to one described by a witness to the execution.

http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/79972/weekend-update-coverage-of-the-execution-and-its-aftermath/

As far as his sons goes, the argument was that the US military decision to show the bodies was to prove they were dead: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3088011.stm

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So I'm watching BBC I coverage re another despicable beheading [View all] malaise Sep 2014 OP

Allow me to be the first to reply Aerows Sep 2014 #1

The entire fugging media is the problem malaise Sep 2014 #4

Boy, you sure know the history of the US Progressive dog Sep 2014 #6

Huh? malaise Sep 2014 #7

Read what you wrote Progressive dog Sep 2014 #11

How is it untrue? awoke_in_2003 Sep 2014 #17

You need to go back and reread the post Progressive dog Sep 2014 #45

that post said oil, water, and all natural resources awoke_in_2003 Sep 2014 #47

At one time, not that long ago Progressive dog Sep 2014 #48

I don't know how you got... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2014 #57

Well I didn't get that. Progressive dog Sep 2014 #58

the US blows up entire families using drones. same concept nt msongs Sep 2014 #2

no, not the same concept at all. kwassa Sep 2014 #18

Like those "terrorist wedding parties" that have gotten wiped out by drone strikes? bullwinkle428 Sep 2014 #21

Terrorists go to weddings, too. kwassa Sep 2014 #22

Callous one-line apologia for drone murder! bobduca Sep 2014 #44

Drones work. Callous not. We are at war with these people. kwassa Sep 2014 #55

So, maybe you think you are at war with "these people" bobduca Sep 2014 #56

Who bombed the Al Jazeera building in Iraq malaise Sep 2014 #26

Facts tend to fall into two categories...convenient and unconvenient. libdem4life Sep 2014 #49

So you would prefer they showed it? Progressive dog Sep 2014 #3

You missed the entire point malaise Sep 2014 #5

No I didn't, your point Progressive dog Sep 2014 #8

Like I said you missed my point malaise Sep 2014 #9

You had no point Progressive dog Sep 2014 #10

You are being obtuse. The point is clear to those morningfog Sep 2014 #19

So you think that you made a point Progressive dog Sep 2014 #39

The OP did. You willfully ignore it. morningfog Sep 2014 #40

I got that point, it's pretty simple Progressive dog Sep 2014 #43

They did make a point, you are ignoring it. Deliberately? mr blur Sep 2014 #53

And so you have chosen to tell me what the Progressive dog Sep 2014 #54

Sing it Brother, loud and strong. 99Forever Sep 2014 #12

Sister malaise Sep 2014 #13

My apologies, no ill will intended. 99Forever Sep 2014 #14

No problem malaise Sep 2014 #15

War is cruelty. William Tecumseh Sherman. Whether by drone or knife or IEDs or artillery. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #16

Tell them malaise Sep 2014 #29

I'd extend it to all innocents killed. morningfog Sep 2014 #20

Precisely malaise Sep 2014 #30

This planet isn't in chaos (everywhere)... Amonester Sep 2014 #23

Did the BBC show his hanging? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #24

As far as his sons goes, malaise Sep 2014 #32

I don't recall the BBC 'celebrating it' muriel_volestrangler Sep 2014 #37

whatever. It's sad to see people using Haine's death to make points about this or that. cali Sep 2014 #25

I disagree with you on this one. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #27

I don't want them to show it malaise Sep 2014 #28

I agree with your point but MSM were complicit CJCRANE Sep 2014 #31

I think the families have every right to be upset malaise Sep 2014 #33

The MSM is propaganda. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #36

You forget Shankapotomus Sep 2014 #34

I find your comparisons spurious. first of all, it's repugnant to implicitly cali Sep 2014 #35

BBC and M$M showed everything except the actual hanging malaise Sep 2014 #42

What is up with your obsession with showing Progressive dog Sep 2014 #46

unless it is an editorial they are reporting a specific story, not a comment on killing in still_one Sep 2014 #52

What inane tripe. Katashi_itto Sep 2014 #38

k&r... spanone Sep 2014 #41

A decapitated head is. frankly, far more horrifying than your examples. Why else would ISIS do it? WinkyDink Sep 2014 #50

They are reporting on a specific news story, not having an editorial on war still_one Sep 2014 #51