The Corner Blog Archives: War
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17 August 2007
Biased broadcasting
Source: Yahoo and AFP, August 14th
Can someone say what’s wrong with this picture? The text says “An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following and early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)”
I wouldn’t like to correct the Associated French Press, but […]
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4 July 2007
Afghanistan needs Kalashikovs
As the situation in Afghanistan is escalating again putting Finnish UN mandated peace cores on tougher and tougher situations that almost endanger their lives, the Finnish government has decided to take action.
Afghanistan, being a country where guns and ammo has historically stayed and delivered to locations where they’ve been dedicated, and it’s government troops will […]
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6 February 2007
Video: US Airforce bombing British convoy on 2003 in Iraq
If you need to find one good thing about tabloid magazines is that they publish anything to get viewers and publicity. The Sun just published “a video that does not exist” on their website about the bombing of English convoy by US Airforce on 2003 which lead to a kill of a British soldier.
The video […]
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19 November 2006
Wartime photo footage released to the public
Censor over pictures from Winter and Continuing Wars was lifted. The wartime picture archive was till now only accessible for researchers, but to cope with the Free Access to Information -act the Defence forces released the restrictions and the pictures became part of War Archive.
The reason why the pictures were “hidden” was mostly political - […]