bthe sacking of piers morgan

A comprehensive Media Tenor survey of coverage of Iraq by the world's leading broadcasters' found that the BBC had given just 2% of its coverage to demonstrations of anti-war dissent — less than even US broadcasters. A Cardiff University study found no evidence that the BBC was anything but pro-war.
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Thus, BBC1's Panorama on September 23, 2002 claimed to have “hard evidence” about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, having accepted as true a fake story about a secret biological weapons laboratory under a major hospital in Baghdad.

Hoax or otherwise, what the Mirror's photographs revealed was a trail of abuse and worse that runs right through the British army in Iraq. Much of the evidence for this has been collected by a tireless Birmingham solicitor, Phil Shiner, acting for 13 Iraqi families, and by the Independent on Sunday, whose outstanding investigations almost salvage the honour of British journalism. The IoS revealed that there are now nearly 40 cases of allegedly unlawful killings of Iraqi civilians and prisoners by British forces since the invasion. When compared with the 37 suspicious deaths of prisoners held by the US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the potential scale of the British crime becomes evident, although it is clear these figures represent only the surface.

Will journalists allow Blair to get away with yet another charade? Or will they ask why Article 7 of the statute of the International Criminal Court, to which Britain is a signatory, is not being invoked? This makes clear that British and US behaviour in Iraq is categorised under “crimes against humanity”, for which the ultimate responsibility lies, as ever, at the top.