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| British Media More Impressed With Gitmo Detainees Than British Public |
| 2006-03-06 |
| (from EURSOC) Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg is guest of honour on the BBC's World Service today. Begg, who confesses to having attended two terrorist training camps, has had an easy ride from the British media. Commentators have spluttered with indignation at every mention of the US prison camp, but have failed to call the released prisoners up on what they were up to in Afghanistan - and what they would have done in the west, had they not been captured by the Americans. The BBC offered its online viewers the opportunity to put some questions to Begg. Unfortunately for terror supporters, the comments posted suggest that sympathy for Guantanamo detainees is in short supply among members of the public, compared to their counterparts in the media and theatre professions. Even allowing for the fact that the survey is moderated, and the editors are certainly trimming the number of attacks on Begg in the interests of "balance", at last count the score was 5 percent messages of support, 95 percent tough criticism. Does he count himself lucky he was not executed as a traitor, as in previous wars? Is he aware that he got off lightly, as under the Geneva accords his captors could have executed him? How does he square British citizenship with support for the Taliban? Would he like to see his sisters and mother treated with the same disdain as women were treated in Afghanistan? How does his treatment by the US authorities compare with the treatment of western prisoners by al-Qaeda, or the treatment of any dissent by the Taliban? Why does he continue to live in Britain, if he finds the climate so hostile? It's exhilarating to read that despite the BBC's shameful grovelling, readers are unafraid to speak the truth. Has the mainstream media ever been so disconnected from the people? |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 I just knew our British cousins had more common sense than their MSM. Good Show Mates! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-03-06 17:16 |