Sunday, May 01, 2005

Return of the Fallen: FOIA Forces Pentagon To Release More Photos Of Dead

quote[The ban on media coverage of returning casualties was imposed by Defense Secretary Cheney after an embarrassing incident in which three television networks broadcast live, split-screen images in December, 1989, as the first U.S. casualties were returning from an American assault on Panama. In that incident, President Bush was seen on television joking at a White House news conference while somber images of flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base moved across viewers' screens.]

The images speak for themselves...

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