Interesting interview with the corrospondent of the BBC story.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/...nch/index.html
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Instead of all of us relying on your five-minute, very professional, very carefully edited film, which was immediately transmitted from Central Command to the world's broadcasters, why don't you give everybody what's known in the profession as "the rushes"? Give everybody all the unedited film, the real-time film, as shot by the U.S. military cameraman who was with the rescue mission, and that will put everybody out of all questions of doubt. They declined to do that.
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In the military's defense, I can see how providing an unedited copy might reveal sensitive information on how special forces perform rescue missions. At least that's the way I would spin it.