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Originally Posted by aryan
Apparently, the photos were a recontruction of what happened.
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Don't believe that for one moment. They were portayed as factual real life photos by those that supported them, the paper and Piers Morgan. When they came under scrutiny they were defended in the above manner and four squaddies (referred to as A,B,C and D) defended them.
When, subsequently people started to point out that the photos looked fake and gave item by item reasoning Morgan still defended them (even when it was determined the actual truck had been identified and had been in Preston for the duration of the Iraq war) and started to try to deflect the argument away from the photos to the "real issue", the abuse of prisoners.
When it became clear they were fakes after all, The Mirror owners wanted to change its focus, Morgan refused and was marched out of the paper's offices.
The issue for me is that the perception now in Iraq is that it is a fact (which investigations have not reported back on yet) that British soldiers are torturing prisoners, and there are now large bounties out for the capture of British soldiers, presumably for some decapitations etc.
Ironically, Morgan's brother-in-law is currently serving in Basra.