Word: bbc
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...York Times columnist Thomas Friedman puts it, and they were both caught. Bush’s handlers have been falling all over themselves trying to insulate Bush from the now-infamous Africa-uranium claim, while Blair’s lieutenants would prefer to kill the messenger, faulting the BBC for sexing up its reporting of Blair’s sexed-up reports—the so-called “dodgy dossiers...
...scoop. It was a case of the ultimate betrayal, and I held my breath, even after they announced Kelly’s suicide. Who was to blame? Who hounded too hard, and who did not confess when he should have? Whoever it was sealed his death, and as the BBC newscasters ruefully admitted on the night after he was found, they played him like he was nothing more than a trump card, when he was a human being. A somber recognition, but one that was somehow moving...
...future of Blair's government - on exactly the opposite course. This week the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons will issue a report on whether Blair misused intelligence on weapons of mass destruction to sell the war in Iraq to a skeptical public. Campbell, enraged by a bbc report in May that claimed he had "sexed up" the major dossier on Iraqi wmd released last September, has launched a ferocious campaign not only to vindicate himself, but to attack the reporter responsible, the BBC and the standards and habits of much of British journalism. "Parts of our media...
...limits being set by Washington on what its troops may do has not been well-received by the West Africans. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo told the BBC, "If your house is on fire and somebody says: 'Here I am. I have my fire engine. Now when you put your fire out on your house, I will come in.' I wonder what sort of help that is, with all due respect." And the fact that the U.S. has a fire engine and a corps of firefighters whose capabilities dwarf those of everyone else in the neighborhood makes it difficult...
...allies in Iraq last weekend suggested that capturing Saddam and putting him on trial would be preferable to killing him. Britain's UN ambassador, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who takes up his post as deputy to U.S. administrator in Baghdad Paul Bremer in September, argued strongly in a BBC interview that Saddam should be taken alive and brought to court. That call was echoed by Ahmed Chalabi, once the Pentagon's most-favored Iraqi exile and now serving on the Bremer-appointed Governing Council. Putting Saddam on trial would allow Iraqis to own the process of their liberation from his regime...