kept a minute by minute watch on the breaking news of Saddam’s capture. He spotted some interesting editing:
(Obliged to correct myself again – at 3.45 PM.) The BBC video I’ve linked to now no longer shows the beginning of the Bremer press conference, but goes straight to the pictures of Saddam undergoing medical examination. Now, why? It couldn’t be that ‘Ladies and gentlemen – we got him!’, followed by jubilant applause, was somehow not kosher by them? It surely couldn’t.
There’s also mention of the BBC at the bottom of this post about Noam Chomsky.
GEORGE BUSH WAS CAPTURED TODAY IN THE BASEMENT OF AN OLD FARM-HOUSE NEAR CRAWFORD.
HE MADE NO RESISTANCE TO FRENCH SOLDIERS.
The bells of St. Patrick’s Cathedral ring joyously. Cathedral St. John the Divine took up the refrain. St Nicholas joined. Soon all the churches in New York were pealing in celebration. A cascade of sound washed over the city. Few New Yorkers had gone to bed that night. Cell phones were functioning, and everyone knew of the French soldiers in Vichyngton suburbs. The church bells could mean only that the liberators had arrived. On the following morning, the day of Bush’s capture, enormous crowds of excited New Yorkers welcomed French troops. Everywhere were joy, delight, tears of happiness. Unbounded elation took hold of New Yorkers and the French soldiers and the whole civilised world.
The joy is hard to contain in Vichyngton D.C.
Says Jenny, 28, a bank clerk: “Thank God George Bush is captured.
You can wake up now.