Al-Jazeera Uncovered the Truth / Horrific Images from Iraq

Horrific images have been shown today(Saturday 22nd March) on the Arabic satellite channel Aljazeera of the victims of U.S. bombardment of Al-Basra and the positions of two Islamic groups in Iraq's Kurdistan.

The Al-Basra victims, 50 of whom have met their death while more than a hundred have been wounded, were all civilians. It is extremely worrying that these reports and images, which have been carried out or shown on Aljazeera TV and are posted on the Aljazeera website: (http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2003/3/3-22-26.htm) have not been reported or shown on any of the British or American TV stations.

According to reports from Washington, the U.S. authorities are imposing a total blackout on these reports and the images of the victims. Since the start of this war both American and British military and political spokespersons have been boasting of a "precise targeting". Faced with massive opposition to the war, both domestically and internationally, both governments have been concerned about any reaction to reports of indiscriminate killing or maiming of Iraqis.

Although, such critical reports of human deaths and suffering were supported by evidence and broadcasted through international media such as Al-Jazeera, the British media has failed miserably to report civilian casualties of American and British military forces' use of overwhelming force to attack Iraq.

Mainstream British media's continuous failure to maintain unbiased reporting of events taking place in Iraq, casts dark shadow upon its so called democratic values of journalistic conduct, sadly at the same time questioning integrity of some elements of the media.

The British public only demands to know what is going on, what is the truth, so it is the responsibility of the media to exercise unbiased reporting during such a critical time.