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BBC Issues Retraction Over Misleading Iran Photos
Steve Herrmann
BBC
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Related: BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda
The crisis over the Iranian election has been our lead story for most of the week. As with all our coverage, we have been careful to report what both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi supporters are saying. Similarly, we have taken care to label the pictures we use, explaining what they are of.
However, on Wednesday 17 June we made a mistake in a picture caption published on BBC News online. In the story Obama refuses to ‘meddle’ in Iran, we mistakenly stated that a Getty agency picture of a pro-Ahmadinejad rally was a pro-Mousavi rally.
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June 20th, 2009 at 6:11 am
im sure it was just a mistake.
color revolution Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 6:15 am
…sarcasm
GWBUSHPIG Reply:
June 21st, 2009 at 4:01 am
It only becomes a mistake when you get caught ,as they did.
anthony Reply:
June 21st, 2009 at 9:11 am
a mistake like reuters picture of baghdad with pillars of smoke rising up(wink wink). keep the mistakes coming dumbasses. soon enough even the most dimwitted won’t believe the mainstream media.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:38 am
The BBC don’t make mistakes except when the now on maternity leave Senior Foreign Affairs Editor at the BBC Adele Armstrong modified and edited the transcript of 9/11 Widow Beverly Eckert, subsequent to the Radio Programmes transmitted on Radio4 & Radio5Live on the 5th Anniversary of 9/11 in 2006. There, the mistake was failing to explain how they managed to send me a slightly different version of Beverly Eckert’s testimony which uniquely had had removed the words: – “An Explosion and …” in reference to what she heard during the last phone call to her husband on floor 105 World Trade Centre 2 on 9/11.
Bev Eckert is now dead following the Colgan 3407 (Continental Airlines) crash onto her HOME TOWN of Buffalo NYC on Friday 13th this year, 2009. Very strange one thinks to oneself, since I was the only person I have ever heard of whom she asked to investigate the references to the exact same explosion on floor 105 WTC2 back in 2001.
This business isn’t over is it! I KNOW FOR SURE TO 200% that this business was no mistake and that this business is not over yet, is it?
On the day of her death, I received a little message from a female which said this: “… they are coming after you next Graeme …”.
Now, this isn’t a mistake, non of these events are mistakes. They are the direct results of political involvement in occultism and pure wickedness.
Nothing these people do is a mistake, since they admit to having done it deliberately…
Am I reaching? No! This business isn’t over yet. All bets are on …
pointed Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Brilliant but tragic comment, Juntawatch.
Take heed everyone. For sure the debate about 9/11 is OVER but the ‘war for justice’ must be won before Fall…How many know how (and are brave enough) to conduct citizens arrests? Now is the time to find out. Before weaponised viruses/vaccinations; before another 9/11; before FEMA camps.
the Citizens Investigation Team can show you how:-
http://www.citizeninvestigatio.....ategy.html
As for the wretched, ‘get the Big Lie in first’ BBC (Bilderberg Bullsh*t Cabal) in the UK, they’ve blown it too often already and folks are wising up rapidly. Nice to see UK is now #1 Evil nation – according to the Ayatollahs!
June 20th, 2009 at 8:42 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mxFRigYD3s
And here we have BBC announcing twice on 9/11 that WTC has collapsed before it actually did.
Along with CNN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1LetB0z8_o
But I’m guessing it was just a mistake.
John Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Lol: Sarcasm.. to go on.. there was no way of knowing that that building would collapse, it was reported to have collapsed by CNN and then by the BBC +/- 30 mins from actual collapse despite showing no historical signs of this being imminent at all. The building then collapsed ’symmetrically’ into its own footprint, from damage supposably caused by a few minor fire outbreaks dotted around one side of the building and the weakening of its structure due to the collapses nearby.
Before Sept 11, no skyscraper in history had ever lost integrity to the point of collapse by fire, yet on Sept 11 it happened three times in one day, the lesser known (wtc7) was reported live prior to the actual event (concrete fact) afterwhich it collapsed in what can only be described (by physicists and engineers and yes, demolition personnel alike) as a textbook controlled demolition. Perhaps those with the prior knowledge within CNN, who are being corrupted by money but still conscious, wanted to give us a clear warning, a smoking gun. The insider in question still gets his money, a secret slap on the wrist, just a journalism error, nothing to see here.
Can noone see the similarities between the events on and following the collapse of the towers, and the collapse of the windmill in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which had the animals looking for false enemies and offering all their liberties to the pigs who then changed the writing on the wall (the constitution).
Arthur Scheuerman Reply:
June 21st, 2009 at 9:32 am
The water spray systems in both towers and Building 7 were damaged by the forces of plane impacts and in Building 7. The tower’s collapse impacts damaged the water mains in the streets which deprived the Fire Department of water. Fire size which is determined by the area between fire walls is another major factor affecting steel failure. FDNY Chief Vincent Dunn explains:
“A large-area fire in which flames involve much of the steel beam in a short period of time will heat a beam to its critical temperature more quickly. A so-called ‘flash fire’—which suddenly involves a large area with flame, can heat [inadequately fireproofed] steel to its failure temperature rapidly.”4
Because long span, lightweight steel, bar-joist floor construction was used to provide the wide-open spaces free of columns within the WTC towers, vulnerabilities were introduced. Since lightweight steel trusses are heated by a large fire faster than heavy members, and since they span such larger areas, their failure would be much more serious than would the failure of a short-span element. With a bar joist floor hanging in suspension (catenary) the tensile ‘pull-in’ force varies as the square of the span length so this ‘pull-in’ force is greatly increased as the span length increases.
The other thing about long span floors is that when an interior column or columns fail under such large area circumstances the building may not be able to redistribute the floor loads to other columns and the collapse is likely to progress upwards leaving all the floors above hanging in suspension. If the building is not protected against progressive collapse, global (total) collapse can ensue. Building 7 collapsed because one key interior column failed after the long span floors failed around it. Because of the long spans and the superimposition of columns this key column was supporting a large area of flooring on every floor all the way to the roof. It was discovered by the NIST computer studies that failure of this one column would have brought the entire building down without any fire. Such a lack of strength and redundancy should be corrected by designing the building to withstand the removal any single column.
BBC reporting collapse over the air before Building 7 actually collapsed.
The ‘truthers’ asked “How did the BBC know that the Towers were going to collapse?” after they reported it had collapsed while a video feed of the building still standing was showing on the screen. Of course the BBC reporter didn’t know! Did you ever hear a mistake made by a reporter? Or do you believe everything you are told by a TV reporter in the heat of an emergency? The BBC reporter on the air received an erroneous report that the Building 7 had collapsed before it actually did and reported it well before the actual occurrence. It was a simple mistake.
I can imagine how it happened. In addition to the damage done to Building 7 by the heavy steel column trees that pealed off of the collapsing towers some of these steel columns penetrated the roads and broke the nearby water mains. There was fire on many floors in Building 7 and without water these fires could not be controlled. The collapse possibility was anticipated by the Fire Dept. Chief in Command who ordered the evacuation out of the building and out of a “collapse zone” about 600 feet around the building. Apparently they were the only people who realized the possibility that an out of control fire on multiple floors in a steel framed, long span, open area, office building could cause a collapse. They had just experienced the collapse of two similar buildings trapping and killing many of their brothers. The ‘collapse zone’ was a large area including buildings and streets around Building 7 and clearing this large area of people was a big problem. To get some people reluctant to move swiftly out of the area I can imagine someone saying “the building’s coming down”. A reporter may have heard this and called his boss and told him the building 7 is coming down. The person receiving the call believed the building was already collapsing. It went out over the air as the building had already collapsed before the actual occurrence. The anticipation of collapse was a brilliant call by the Fire Dept. and no lives were lost when the 47 story building collapsed a few hours after the evacuation order was given.
This is a message from Chief of Department (ret.) Daniel Nigro the chief in charge of the fire, addressing the conspiracy theories surrounding the collapse of WTC 7.
Release date: September 23, 2007
Regarding WTC 7: The long-awaited US Government NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) report on the collapse of WTC 7 is due to be published at the end of this year (although it has been delayed already a few times [adding fuel to the conspiracy theorists ideas]). That report should explain the cause and mechanics of the collapse in great detail. Early on the afternoon of September 11th 2001, following the collapse of WTC 1 & 2, I feared a collapse of WTC 7 (as did many on my staff).
The reasons are as follows:
1 – Although prior to that day high-rise structures had never collapsed, the collapse of WTC 1 & 2 showed that certain high-rise structures subjected to damage from impact and from fire will collapse.
2. The collapse of WTC 1 damaged portions of the lower floors of WTC 7.
3. WTC 7, we knew, was built on a small number of large columns providing an open Atrium on the lower levels.
4. Numerous fires on many floors of WTC 7 burned without sufficient water supply to attack them.
For these reasons I made the decision (without consulting the owner [Larry Silverstein], the mayor or anyone else – as ranking fire officer, that decision was my responsibility) to clear a collapse zone surrounding the building and to stop all activity within that zone. Approximately three hours after that order was given, WTC 7 collapsed.
Conspiracy theories abound and I believe firmly that all of them are without merit.
Regards, Dan Nigro
Chief of Department FDNY (retired)
FDNY Deputy Chief Peter Hayden reported,
“We were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse. Early on we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse.”
On October 4 2001 Chief Nigro reported;
“The most important operational decision to be made that afternoon was [that] the collapse [of Tower 1] had damaged 7 World Trade Center, which is about a 50 story building, at Vesey between West Broadway and Washington Street. It had a very heavy fire on many floors and I ordered the evacuation of an area sufficient around [building 7] to protect our members, so we had to give up some rescue operations which were going on at the time [under the ruble of Tower 1] and back the people away far enough so that if 7 World Trade Center did collapse, we wouldn’t lose any more people. We continued to operate on what we could from that distance and approximately an hour and a half after that order [to evacuate the building and collapse zone] was given, at 5;30 in the afternoon, 7 World Trade Center collapsed completely. I continued to operate at the scene until probably somewhere around 8 o’clock, at which time I borrowed Chief Meyer’s car, because mine was destroyed and went home to [take a], shower, change my clothes and I came back to work at approximately between 11 and midnight with Chief Turi.”
(New York Times interview Date; October 24, 2001, transcribed by Elizabeth F. Nason)
tim Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
“at 5;30 in the afternoon, 7 World Trade Center collapsed completely.”
And how did that happen again? Another perfect storm of insufficient fireproofing and substandard architecture? Oh, by the way, that was the command center for the mayor y’know? You’d think it’d be a 100% solid structure, but alas it was the third building that day that was so poorly designed that ultimately fire was able to take it down.
Bullshit. Unprecedented bullshit.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Notice how the Big Lie hits the frontpage whilst the retraction is buried in a blog? The comments at that Beeb link can give you some idea about how Brits are feeling about their Bilderberg mouthpiece.
Good plug for whatreallyhappened.com , though. See how Truth trumps Evil in mysterious ways?
June 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am
BBC losing their grip on the masses
cmon the rest of you sheep !
June 20th, 2009 at 11:19 am
There is this age old adage in Bengali which says:
“The best of the wisdom is “Pilfering”, provided one does not get caught:”
Believe this true with BBC.
They had been very successful in propagating all kind of lies for 80 plus years now, simply because the man in the main street did not have a cell phone with a caemra.
Guess the game is now over, isn’t it.
However there is this famous Mea Kulpa when caught.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am
what shocks me is a couple of thousands of iranians and friends Demonstrated a couple of days ago OUTSIDE the BBC headquaters in London (for its Propanganda ) and were holding banners that says BBC dont meddle with Iran , and BBC we do not want another Coup against General Mossadeq (who got replaced by the Shah by the British and the CIA )
BUT the BBC has not shown the demonstration , Not even on the Arabic BBC . the Only channel that showed it was Press tv . how credible is that ?? i waited and waited NOTHING . Shame and they pretended they were Neutral while Gaza was Slaughtered and bombed to the stone age .
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June 20th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Just thought I would say hi to my fellow christians, keep up the good work, although its been a long time since you burnt any witches. Those were the days. I look back to those years during the crusades, so much bloodshed, so many inocent lives…….. especially when you burnt thousands of Cathari’s and their families.
Now I know that that you slaughter in gods name, but just remember that its me you are really serving.
tim Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Hey Satan, how’s the weather in fairyland? Say hello to Santa and Jesus and Mohammed and Ronald McDonald for me!
June 20th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Eughhh… talk sense boyyyy…
June 20th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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June 20th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
The BBC only make mistakes when a correspondant reports a building collapse 20 minutes early!
June 20th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
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June 20th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
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tim Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
get the fuck outta here with your jesus spam
June 21st, 2009 at 2:16 am
Mistake..not at all. The Brits have been caught out lying at every turn.
Why can’t they stay on their shitty island and mind their own business?
In fact why can’t every nation do this? Ahh…because stealing is much
easier than hard work and the satisfaction of earning something.
I sleep no longer. I am wide awake.
June 21st, 2009 at 3:12 am
Please don’t blame the ‘Brits’ for the BBC. It’s like blaming the American people for Fox News. And ‘nations’ don’t stick their nose in where it’s not wanted, States do. Pedantic to point out the difference, perhaps, but really this kind of generalisation about people based on the actions of their institutions is very unfair (and exactly the same tactic the PTB use to convince us how evil the Foe de Jour are).
June 21st, 2009 at 4:41 am
MISTAKE MY SMELLY ASS..
June 21st, 2009 at 6:19 am
i’m right here with everybody. low paying job, bills mounting up, wife and kid. But i gotta tell you. everything you read, everything you hear, everything both sides say, is all designed to draw your attention away from what really matters. If you worry about what Fox news says, and worry about what Alex Jones says, you’ve missed the picture. though Alex may be right about what is going on, i think even he loses sight of what really matters. We aren’t just coming closer to the end of cash, rights and everything that makes America great. we’re coming closer to the end of the world. Closer to the coming of the Lord. Spread His word. not the meaningless words of man.
tim Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
that last sentence speaks volumes, so shut the fuck up
June 21st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
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tim Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
seriously, you’re asking for it.
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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June 24th, 2009 at 3:49 am
Ruby I’d agree if Britain wasn’t going down the collective toilet.
The problem is that most every institution there is sinking into insanity.
I have collected article after article on the ‘general insanity’ and the excuses
are wearing thin. To say it isn’t the ‘British’, but rather the BBC, or the
Social Services, or city councils is a defeatist mentality of a frightened citizenry.
Strange because there is nothing to be afraid of. The problem is
unity in what the people want. Governments like to break up unity so there can
be no meaningful opposition and government gets what it wants.
Also, if this were a one off ‘mess-up’ then I wouldn’t comment. However it is a systemic of Britain in general and the people just cower. So please spare me the apologist attitude.