the daily mirror pics

[seal!]

i didn't see these picture, but were they really that bad, is there a web site with them on?

[quattro]

In retrospect it is easy to see how they were posed - an "Iraqi prisoner" with a sack over his head being kicked in the groin hit with a rifle butt and urinated over,the pictures appearing if someone said "Ok put your foot in his groin as if you were kicking him and put your rifle butt in his face as if you were wacking him and I'll take a picture of it"A normal bloke would not have been able to capture such exact images unlesss they were posed we see papparazzi photographers taking hundreds of pictures at a go to get the right image but still it fooled millions of people world wide and a Fleet Street editor with years of experience or did it ?If he was as good an editor as he said he was he must have seen they were fakes.

[nedflanders]

I have no doubt he knew they were fake but thought that he would print them anyway to create a story but proving that would be a different matter. Does anyone know if they paid for the photos? see here for details of the pics http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3680327.stm and here for more opinions. question 44960 and here http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/DisplayAnswers.go?q
uestion_id=44295&category_id=15&index=19

[Moog]

The daily mirror pictures of alleged UK soldiers abusing Iraqi POWs we fairly obviously fake form the outset, though if they were true then yes they would have been "bad" the one's of US troops torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners which clearly aren't fake are a disgraceful breach of the Geneva convention not to say a depressing relection on the state of morality in the world

[MikeMikeMike]

What drives me mad is Amercan politicians spouting over and over that these actions 'do not represent America'. Firstly, whether they like it or not the pictures do represent them because it's American troops doing this (although I don't suggest they are alone in their abuses), but, more importantly, since when has being American been the same as being morally unreprehensible? I didn't realise that saying 'this has nothing to do with us' when things go wrong makes you guilt free.

[bazwillrun]

I used to work at the Mirror until 3 years ago and like all papers they have Picture editors who would have been in on it.They also have lawyers, and believe me all this lot would have had numerous meetings before they went with this one. Forget all this cr*p about the public and the right to know. "Newspapers" especially the tabloids, are about one thing and one thing only SALES, and they all knew this would sell. Unlike potentially libelous stories where the court costs and damages if they lost could exceed sales, they would have known that in this case they were ptetty safe. What they diidnt take into account was having to pay of Piers Morgan �1 million plus Hahahaha !!!!