Forty-nine Iraqi “criminals” have been killed in three separate raids in Sadr City in the capital, Baghdad, the US military says.

That’s a headline on the BBC website. Note the scare quotes around the word criminals.

“The operation’s objective was an individual reported to be a long-time Special Groups member specialising in kidnapping operations,” it said.

Iraqi sources said women and children were among those killed, but the US said it was not aware of this.

Iraqi sources? What kind of sources? Is it the Iraqi government? Not exactly…

An official loyal to Moqtada Sadr said the attack was “simply barbaric”.

“Most of those killed and wounded were women, children and elderly men which shows the indiscriminate monstrosity of the attacks on this crowded area,” Abdul-Mehdi al-Muteyri told Reuters news agency.

The BBC feels the burden of proof should be on the American military to prove that those killed were indeed “criminals”, but has no trouble at all believing the henchmen of a known thug and terrorist. Disgusting.

From the Lone Voice - I hate the BBC- and we thought our CBC was Bad:

“It would be so bad were it not the fact that in order to watch tv here in the UK we have to purchase a tv license, used to fund the biased BBC.They dont seem to regard security as important either…Politicians reacted in disbelief to the revelation that for over two hours yesterday, the BBC News website carried a request for people in Iraq to report on troop movements.”

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