“Consider what happened in Basra last Saturday when there were air raids. The Qatari television channel al-Jazeera had a team in the city and it sent back graphic pictures of dead and wounded civilians which were widely shown in the Arab world.
But these images have been all but ignored in the West, which seems more interested in pictures of the American prisoners of war.
People do not take kindly to being bombed, even by "friendly forces". ”