Killing makes good TV.

BBC correspondent, Ian Pannell was reporting live when rebels hid an Improvised Explosive Device beside a road hoping to blow up any government tank that came along. Not only was he in Syria without a valid visa but he was witnessing an attack on the official army without informing authorities, thus being a party to the crime. What makes western white skins think that they can violate the sovereignty of any country and instigate violence with complete impunity? Surely that makes them legitimate targets for government forces. Yet, we saw widespread condemnation of Syrian forces when Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and French photographer, Remi Ochlik were killed by a shell in Homs in February 2012. However, Britain and the US are not so sympathetic when the situation is reversed. On 23 April 1999 a NATO rocket demolished the Radio Television of Serbia building killing 16 employees and wounding many others. Survivors were trapped in the wreckage for days only able to communicate with rescuers through phones. On 13 November 2001 a US missile took out the Al Jazeera office in Kabul. No one died. On 8 April 2003 a US missile hit the electricity generator of Al Jazeera TV in Baghdad killing a reporter, Tareq Ayyoub and injuring another. The then British Home Secretary, David Blunkett says in his autobiography, "There wasn't a worry for me because I believed this was a war and in a war you wouldn't allow a broadcast to continue taking place." Which is a complete lie because Al Jazeera is based in Qatar, a country friendly to both the US and Britain, and had no link to Saddam Hussein's government nor has it any link to the Taliban in Afghanistan. And the war in question was not sanctioned by the UN Security Council and hence illegal. Indeed, if a leaked memo is to be believed George Bush and Tony Blair were discussing bombing Al Jazeera headquarters in Qatar on 16 April 2004 during Operation Vigilant Resolve on Fallujah which resulted in a massacre of civilians. During the Iraq war BBC and CNN journalists were " embedded " with US forces and kept their eyes deliberately shut when massacres were taking place. This explains the rage of the US government on Julian Assange who exposed how US helicopter pilots were laughing while hunting for Iraqis in Baghdad killing over a dozen innocent people including 2 Reuters journalists. While deaths in Syria are shown in every gory detail these propaganda channels are not so keen to report from Iraq. Just today a series of bomb blasts have killed 12 and wounded 40. At least 200 have been killed in Iraq since 13 June. Thousands of people have been killed by western interference but, hey, dead bodies covered in blood make very good pictures for television. White skins are united while colored ones are not. That makes us weak and easy meat.