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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Richard Sambrook,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm following BBC coverage with mounting rage
and disbelief - ITN broadcast the interview with the Iraqi journalist
at approx 10.30 last night - he had witnessed a 12 or 13 year old girl being
assaulted by US guards as her brother listened from his cell. An ITN artist had
already done sketches of the scene as described. Although ITN was
running the story as an 'Exclusive', this surely does not excuse the BBC
avoiding the revelations. I watched the BBC News 24 broadcasts until approx
2.30 a.m. and the allegations were not mentioned. Again, today BBC News 24
has made no mention of it at all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is going on ?? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you imagine you can ignore this and it will go
away ??</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You people have received remarkable public support
of late, and this is your 'thank-you' - breathtaking spinelessness. If BBC
staff are so contrained in their professional lives by tacit Govt dictat,
perhaps they will be forced to respond to this story on the simpler basis of
being human and possessed of some fundamental sense of empathy with
others. If you and your journalists cannot face up to your
responsibilities and acknowledge the gravity of what is happening in our name,
you are complicit in these crimes.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I recognise you will be busy, but I'm happy to wait
for a response to this, no matter how long it may take. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ian Brotherhood</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>