I like to listen to BBC Radio 4.  Mr. Waffle comments that there is a part of
our kitchen that is forever England. 
It was trying my loyalty pretty high recently with non-stop cricket
followed by non-stop political party conferences, but on the whole, I think
itÂ’s nifty.

However, I was surprised by the reporting
of events in Basra at the end of September (this goes for the World Service as
well as Radio 4).  Essentially, as I
understand it, British troops in Basra bulldozed an Iraqi prison to spring
two of their men.  But, to hear the
reports, it’s all “bad old Iraqis nearly killed two of our brave soldiers in
custody”.  At no point has it been made
clear what the lads were in custody for – I think that they were “undercover
operatives”, so maybe we are just not meant to know.  Anyway the Iraqis are a bit annoyed and
demanding an apology (and possibly some prison rebuilding) and the British are
very cross and refusing to provide same. 
I know the situations arenÂ’t parallel etc. etc. but I wonder how it
would be reported on the BBC, if a foreign army bulldozed a prison in the UK to spring a couple of its men.

NorahSplog

on 20 October 2005 at 16:25

I remember being quite interested in that story. I’m a Radio 2 girl myself and they had an interview with a boffin who said that there were so many inconsistencies in the story that it all had to be a cover-up for something entirely different. For a start, the “undercover operatives” had blue eyes – Arabs tend not to have blue eyes and you’d have thought that the British Army would exercise more attention to detail when chosing their undercover operatives… And he said a whole load of other reasons why the whole thing was as fishy as Fridays in Portugal, but I don’t recall any of the other reasons now…
(Also, the moon landings were faked…) 0
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belgianwaffle

on 21 October 2005 at 10:07

Ta bruiser. Norah, I knew it about the moon landings. 0
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