'Regret' over Blair execution comment. A government minister expresses regret over any hurt caused by the prime minister's claim that two British soldiers were executed. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]
In particular he expressed outrage that pictures of the bodies were paraded on an Arab news channel... "It is yet one more flagrant breach of all the proper conventions of war. ..."
Interesting wording proper conventions, after seeing/reading about US/UK claims that broadcast of pictures of prisoners in particular ways was against the Geneva Convention a chum went and read said Convention (the wonders of the Internet) and can't find the clause that says anything particular about this. Anyone able to help? (whose got a few hours to spare!) - but my guess is it is down to interpretation of some phrase such as "should be treated properly".
Asked why he had referred to their deaths as executions, Mr Blair said it was "because of the circumstances we know".
Presumably, if he told us what he knew, he'd have to kill us.
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