It is relatively rare for the MoD, first on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme and then on its own website directly – or even indirectly – to contradict media reports on operations in southern Iraq. However, it was precisely that exercise which the MoD undertook yesterday, its website piece headed, "People of Basra 'optimistic' as Iraqi Army take control in the city"...
Posted on Defence of the Realm
Thursday 24 April 2008
A conflict of reports
