News Commentary – March 28, 2007
As the diplomatic wrangling intensifies, its been revealed that not one but two British news outlets interviewed leading Seaman Specialist Faye Turney, the lone female among the fifteen British sailors and marines now held by Iran.
Her capture by Iran's Revolutionary Guards came only a few hours after she was interviewed.
In the interview with
The Independent, she described how the crew of HMS Cornwall were well aware of the perils of operating in an area that had been targeted by suicide bombers.
"The atmosphere on the boat is really good”, she told reporters. “We were made aware that some things can be really dodgy. [But] we've not really had anything that bad at the moment - that's always a good sign.
"My parents made sure I was under no illusions that I could, and can, go to war at any time. Sometimes it can be like a cruise being in the Navy but sometimes you may be called upon. And if you are then you just have to get on with it, That's what you're paid for."
The BBC also recorded a brief interview with Faye Turney shortly before she left on a mission that would lead her into the clutches of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Coincidence or not, the fact that the BBC and the
Independent were both able to interview her shortly before she was seized was a journalistic coup. So much so that some observers have commented on how it was reminiscent of the way the BBC announced the collapse of World Trade Center 7
before it actually fell.
Despite indications that news reports on 9/11 were being scheduled to an unspoken agenda, the only explanation the BBC could offer for this coincidence was that it was simply a
“cock-up”. No seriously, that is how it was explained by Richard Porter, Head of News, BBC World, who added, “we’re not part of a conspiracy”.
Maybe not but much of the BBC’s news coverage is really substandard nowadays or downright contrived. So maybe we should be asking if the British boarding party hadn’t deliberately strayed into Iranian waters, with the mainstream media laying the groundwork in anticipation of their encounter with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards?
It’s not as outlandish as it may sound. After all, we have only the official word that the boarding party was in Iraqi waters, and you only have to look back a few years to claims about Saddam’s WMD’s to realise how unreliable the official word can be.
At the time those claims about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction helped propel Britain and America into the bloody nightmare that Iraq has become.
So perhaps we should be a little more circumspect when it comes to the official word and treat the pronouncements of their lackeys in the mainstream media with a little more scrutiny.
For even as
video footage was broadcast of the captured British sailors and marines, its clear that a a battle is being fought for hearts and minds with both sides using the media as a weapon.
As if that wasn’t enough, Craig Murray, the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan is now claiming that the maps used by the British Government to prove that naval contingent was captured inside Iraqi territorial waters are
fakes.
However, as usual the mainstream media has barely touched upon this revelation.
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