Independent joins ITN and Vulliamy in lies, Feb. 2, 1997

What fools honest people are. Expecting that showing of the real and uncut tape of the events in August 1992 would be enough to prove a claim of lies and bias by ITN and Guardian's Vulliamy, certainly was wrong. While it is expected from a low-life, lying scum of Vulliamy's fame to defend his nonexistent integrity one has a hard time to explain why does Independent sticks to lying for Vulliamy and ITN. Perhaps the answer is that they are defending their reputation as well. Namely, no "free" western media house can claim fair reporting on the ex-Yugo wars and defending Vulliamy and ITN is the only right thing for them to do.

Anyhow, here is the piece from todays (Feb. 2) Independent article, a peace from Vulliamy's Observer article (Feb. 2) and for a comparassion sake Vulliamy's own article back from August 7, 1992.

Make up your own mind on who and why is lying. There are other points to be made from the latest articles but, for now, we will stick to one issue only -- did Dr. Karadzic invite the ITN and Guardian reporters to the Serb-run Bosnia refugee camps?

	Independent on Sunday, 2 February 1997

	ITN coverage of Bosnia, 1992

	[...]

	We also repeated the suggestion that ITN's Penny Marshall and
	Ed Vulliamy of the Guardian visited the camp at the request 
	of Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic, who asked them to visit in 
	order to scotch rumours of Bnsnian-Serb atrocities at the site.  
	We accept that this was not the case and regret publishing the 
	claims.

	I stand by my story

	by Ed Vulliamy

	The Observer, 2 February 1997 
	[...}

	The Independent on Sunday printed the defamations without 
	thinking to call, and even added an extra one of its own: 
	the pernicious notion that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan 
	Karadzic had hand-picked Penny and me so as to 'scotch 
	rumours' of concentration camps. Karadzic was in overall
	control of the camps, and is an international fugitive 
	wanted for genocide. The suggestion that he would select us 
	for his purposes is a foul slur. 

	[...]

	The Guardian, 7 August 1992
 
	Shame of camp Omarska:  We will not rest ...

	By ED VULLIAMY

	[...]
	Neither the International Red Cross nor the United Nations 
	-nor any press - had visited it before we arrived on 
	Wednesday, although the international agencies have 
	expressed acute concern about the Bosnian-Muslim 
	allegations.  The unexpected and unexplained access to
	Omarska was part of an invitation by the Bosnian-Serbian 
	president, Radovan Karazdic, a challenge to the Guardian 
	and Independent Television News to inspect 'whatever you 
	wish to see' in response to the concentration camp 
	allegations.  

	[...]