Ambulance Update

UK media, including the BBC, seem to have moved on from the ambulance attack story. Not so in Australia, where foreign minister Alexander Downer’s description of the story as ‘a hoax‘, citing the evidence also linked to by Biased BBC, has kept it very much alive.

Oz blogger Tim Blair rounds up the contradictions in the various descriptions of the ‘attack’. And a story in Australian newspaper The Age, titled “Ambulance attack evidence stands the test”, claims that the ambulance in which Mr Fawaz allegedly lost a leg was not the one shown on the BBC website (picture 7), but was the one shown below. Unfortunately, the Age seem to be coy about giving the public any more photographs – and this one is not on their website, but scanned from the print edition.

Compared with the ‘original’ ambulance (below), the ambulance above looks even older and rustier, and the red cross is very faded, even given that the colour balance may not be the same in the photos (compare the orange suits of the paramedics).