This morning I heard a report on BBC radio by Dawood Azami who related, "a man who says he is the renegade Afghan soldier who killed three British troops in Helmand province in Afghanistan has contacted the BBC."
During the interview, the man said that he was angry with British troops and accused them of killing civilians. Another reason he gave was that he wasn't happy and wanted to be rewarded in the hereafter.
Mr. Azami ended his interview by saying that the UK's Ministry of Defence had issued a statement. "While we cannot comment on the legitimacy of this individual's claims to be the suspect responsible for this cowardly attack, it is ridiculous to suggest that we are engaged in suicide attacks or are deliberately killing civilians.
Insurgents and those who are against the coalition mission in Afghanistan routinely make false and exaggerated claims and so care must be taken not to accept their accounts at face value."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10656477
I guess we cannot take at face value the claims of insurgents in Afghanistan, but it is not a problem to take at face value those claims made by those on the Flotilla, insurgents in Gaza, the West Bank and those against Israel, as evidenced by the 2002 reporting of the massacre in Jenin.
What happened that day was said to be a massacre on the scale of Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya, with entire buildings flattened and hundreds of Palestinian civilians killed.People around the world assumed this to be true because United Nations aid workers, The Independent, the Times of London, The Guardian, BBC News and a host of other media organizations across Europe reported it to be so."Massacre evidence growing," a headline on BBC's website blared on April 18, 2002.
There was just one small problem. None of that happened.
http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2009/08/jenin-massacring-truth.html
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