Rod Liddle in the Guardian lists just a few of the rumours promulgated by the military that have quickly turned out to be false. Oddly enough in the same paper on the same day on the front page there was a report suggesting that an uprising was taking place in Basra and Iraqi artillery was being used to put it down – something that seems to have been entirely without foundation. Still, if the papers and TV only printed what they could actually see the news reports would be a lot shorter…
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26 March 2003
