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tsmy —

1, Goto the following page:
http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html

2, Enter your details.

3, Enter these links to the articles:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/73438
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/60507/Brit-terror-nuts-shoot-girl-…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/11/28/seven-mumbai-gunmen…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/british-muslims-have-becom…

4, Copy and paste the following text into the comments text box:

Mumbai: Claims about Provenance of Gunmen

I wish to register an urgent and serious complaint the reckless, inaccurate and inflammatory claims by several newspapers about the provenance of the gunmen who were responsible for the atrocities in Mumbai, India, last week.

In the midst of the unfolding tragedy in Mumbai, large section of the British press disgraced itself by publishing as fact the baseless claim that some of the terrorists responsible hailed from Britain.

On Saturday morning [29 November] the Times, Telegraph, Sun, Mirror, Express and Star all prominently reported at least some of the terrorists were British Pakistanis. The number was reported as between two and seven, and the cities they were said to hail from were variously Bradford, Leeds and Hartlepool.

But on that same day the British government and its agencies strongly rejected any claim that British nationals were responsible. So too have the Indian authorities.

The press, however, has cast a pall of suspicion over the Pakistani populations of these three cities. Potentially most damaging is the impact on Hartlepool. The Asian, and Pakistani, population there is very small. They have been made more vulnerable still by reckless claims that someone from their midst was part of committing this atrocity.

Predictably, there was no apology of correction on these titles' websites or in their sister publications, or in later issues.
I demand the Press Complaints Commission investigates as a matter of urgency this flagrant breach of clause one of their code of practice, on accuracy.

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You — Wed, 3 Dec 2008 - 15:19

I read it, but the apology does not mention that.

Saying that, I wated Rome Season 2 Episode 2 recently and there was "Hayya Alal Falaaaaaah Hayya Alal Falaaaaa aaaa aaaa aaah" as the backgorund music during a scene where they were burning the bodies.

The Lamp — Wed, 3 Dec 2008 - 15:35

[quote=You]I read it, but the apology does not mention that.

Saying that, I wated Rome Season 2 Episode 2 recently and there was "Hayya Alal Falaaaaaah Hayya Alal Falaaaaa aaaa aaaa aaah" as the backgorund music during a scene where they were burning the bodies.[/quote]

Did you complain? or stop watching.