Further Proof…

I, for one, love to see journalists covering issues which might be dangerous to themselves, in order for the “truth to be told”.

French weekly magazine, Paris Match, is to publish exclusive pictures of what it says are Iraqi rebels launching a missile attack on a German DHL cargo plane over Baghdad that led to a shutdown of commercial air traffic to the Iraqi capital.

So, when I read the text above, I thought, “Wow, they actually got photographs of the attack. That is awesome.” Then I read more.

The images were taken by one of the magazine’s photographers, Jerome Sessini, who was with the attackers — described in the accompanying article as “Iraqi guerrillas” — at the time of Saturday’s missile strike, editor-in-chief Alain Genestar told AFP on Wednesday.

Excuse me? The photographers were with the attackers?? Exactly how many times will we allow the French to interfere with operations in Iraq? Of course, they try to explain it away…

“We don’t make the perpetrators of this act to be heroes,” he said, adding the correspondent and photographer had been brought back to France “for safety reasons”.

Of course not. Le Worm did not make Saddam out to be a hero either, but we all know where he slithers, err, stands.

The Paris Match photographs were not the first images said to document the attack.

The six-minute video, seen by AFP on Monday, shows one of a group of masked militants firing a missile that hits the DHL cargo jet.

Personally, I think if anyone knows of any insurgent groups in Iraq, and they do not notify coalition forces, then they too, should be shot.