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[FYI] UK commander attacks TV footage



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2890901.stm

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UK commander attacks TV footage  

The leader of UK forces in the Gulf has clashed with a television 
station over its "deplorable" decision to show footage of dead and 
captured British soldiers.  

Air Marshal Brian Burridge told Qatar-based al-Jazeera it should take 
no pride in a film of the bodies of two soldiers lying in a dusty 
street and two prisoners of war in a room with Iraqis.  

He said the broadcast was a "flagrant breach" of the Geneva 
Convention, adding: "All  

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