Saturday, May 21, 2005
The Sun under fire for publishing photos of Saddam Hussein in jail.
The US military has condemned the Sun for publishing photographs of a captive Saddam Hussein and said it was "aggressively" investigating who took them. Today's paper carries a series of photographs showing the former Iraqi dictator in his cell, including one on the front page showing him in his underwear. Another shows him washing clothes under the headline "Tyrant? He's washed up". The Sun says it obtained the photos from "US military sources" who handed them over "in the hope of dealing a body blow to the resistance in Iraq".
I'm not sure we have any figures for The Sun's distribution amongst the anti-US forces in Iraq.
The US military said it was "aggressively" investigating to determine who took the pictures.
I'd like to point out at this juncture that an inquiry into who in the Government leaked the Hutton Report to The Sun several hours early never found out who was responsible...
The US military has condemned the Sun for publishing photographs of a captive Saddam Hussein and said it was "aggressively" investigating who took them. Today's paper carries a series of photographs showing the former Iraqi dictator in his cell, including one on the front page showing him in his underwear. Another shows him washing clothes under the headline "Tyrant? He's washed up". The Sun says it obtained the photos from "US military sources" who handed them over "in the hope of dealing a body blow to the resistance in Iraq".
I'm not sure we have any figures for The Sun's distribution amongst the anti-US forces in Iraq.
The US military said it was "aggressively" investigating to determine who took the pictures.
I'd like to point out at this juncture that an inquiry into who in the Government leaked the Hutton Report to The Sun several hours early never found out who was responsible...
