In today's papers
In Leeds, so rather shortened version, but two stories stand out. First, the Charles de Menezes shooting. Nothing particularly new, but it appears leaked reports from the investigation that basically everything we thought we knew on the first day turned out not to be the case, are true. This has certainly been an eye-opener for many of us.Second, the most important thing we thought we knew about the Iraq insurgency, namely that they were foreigners, is not true either. Indeed the Telegraph reports that
Of 1,300 suspected insurgents arrested over the past five months in and around Ramadi, none has been a foreigner.
The Telegraph also reports that George Best's funeral only saw about 35,000 people turn up, though given the terrible weather this was not a bad figure, and the mood was much more as you would expct than the mawkish and Diana-like image the media was so desperate to portray.
posted by Matthew @ 12/04/2005 10:16:00 AM
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