10/02/2007
The Times must be congratulated for its
report today on the two attacks on the British Army
in Basra yesterday, one on an Army convoy and the other on the Basra Palace base (pictured).
By contrast, the
Telegraph devoted the bulk of its time and space to
picking at the wound of the US A-10 "friendly fire" incident and, a long "soft focus" piece on the death of
Second Lt Jonathan Bracho-Cooke, the last but one soldier to die in Iraq. It gave short shrift to
the attack on the Land Rover, not even bothering to report the second of the attacks.
Meanwhile, Richard Beeston and Michael Evans, defence editor of
The Times, were exploring the possible effects of the attacks on the hopes of bringing home thousands of troops within the next few months.
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