New clothes stab bugs with molecular daggers
"Tiny molecular daggers that latch onto fibres stab and destroy microbes have been created, meaning "killer clothes" may soon be available. Anti-fungal socks could take on athlete's foot while, on a more serious note, military uniforms could kill anthrax.
The molecular dagger has two sections. The stubby end, or dagger handle, is made of two interlinked, nitrogen-rich carbon rings. The "blade" is a carbon chain up to 16 atoms long, populated only by hydrogen atoms. It has a strong affinity for fatty surfaces.
When bacterial or fungal spores approach the fabric, their negatively charged fatty membranes are attracted to positive charges on the nitrogen-rich rings and to the fat-seeking blades. This forces the bug or spore onto the blade, which then penetrates the bacterial membrane.
Once inside, this charged end wreaks havoc and kills the spore by disrupting the delicate bonds inside. Each spore encounters a number of these molecular chains and eventually breaks up."
Wednesday, 16 April 2003
BETTER HUMANS.COM
Humanoid Robot Can Quickly Learn Movement and Coordination
"A new humanoid robot has been unveiled that uses a neural network to quickly learn movement and motor coordination.
Called HOAP-2, the robot is the next-generation of the HOAP line built by Fujitsu.
Looking like a crude version of Honda's Asimo, HOAP-2 is half a meter tall and weighs seven kilograms."
Artificial Heart Could Be Approved for Wider Use
"A fully implantable artificial heart currently being tested on critically ill patients could soon be available for more people with serious heart ailments.
The AbioCor is a grapefruit-sized, titanium-and-plastic device that is completely implanted in a patient's body with no exterior wires.
Only gravely ill patients with less than 30 days to live currently qualify for the device."
Empathic Computers in the Works
"A three-year research project aims to create computers that can play you a song when they see that you're sad.
Success of the endeavor could produce intuitive technology, such as:
* A CD player that can select appropriate music based on the mood of the listener.
* Games that can change the action based on emotional responses.
* Computers that can judge a student's understanding and adjust teaching levels accordingly.
Currently, computers have the ability to recognize basic human emotions in photographs."
Humanoid Robot Can Quickly Learn Movement and Coordination
"A new humanoid robot has been unveiled that uses a neural network to quickly learn movement and motor coordination.
Called HOAP-2, the robot is the next-generation of the HOAP line built by Fujitsu.
Looking like a crude version of Honda's Asimo, HOAP-2 is half a meter tall and weighs seven kilograms."
Artificial Heart Could Be Approved for Wider Use
"A fully implantable artificial heart currently being tested on critically ill patients could soon be available for more people with serious heart ailments.
The AbioCor is a grapefruit-sized, titanium-and-plastic device that is completely implanted in a patient's body with no exterior wires.
Only gravely ill patients with less than 30 days to live currently qualify for the device."
Empathic Computers in the Works
"A three-year research project aims to create computers that can play you a song when they see that you're sad.
Success of the endeavor could produce intuitive technology, such as:
* A CD player that can select appropriate music based on the mood of the listener.
* Games that can change the action based on emotional responses.
* Computers that can judge a student's understanding and adjust teaching levels accordingly.
Currently, computers have the ability to recognize basic human emotions in photographs."
Monocoli
The monocoli only had one leg, but they got around very well by jumping. They jumped so fast and so far that even a man with two legs could not hope to catch them.
The monocoli only had one leg, but they got around very well by jumping. They jumped so fast and so far that even a man with two legs could not hope to catch them.
Tuesday, 15 April 2003
Eyewitness Charges US
With Encouraging Looting
"The following article is from Sweden's largest daily newspaper" (not that being any country's "largest daily" is any recomendation.)
.....Khaled Bayomi looks a bit surprised when he looks at the American officer on TV regret that they dont have any resources to stop the looting in Baghdad.
"I happened to be there just as the US forces told people to commence looting."
Do you mean to say that it was the US troops that initiated the looting?
"Absolutely. The lack of scenes of joy had the US forces in need of images of Iraqis who in different ways demonstrated their disgust with Saddam's regime ......"
plus Did US Dealers/Collectors
Organize Museum Looting?
OR THIS PERSPECTIVE OF THE LOOTING
"There are two kinds of unprofessionalism being displayed in Baghdad--on the one hand, the general looting has done more damage that all the military fires--and we note that the Marines in Panama stopped looting cold in its tracks by shooting the first looter; on the other hand, the loss of vital official documents to general fires and mob rampaging is extraordinary. "
"We can only conclude that either the CENTRAL COMMAND is completely oblivious to and ineffective in managing the intelligence collection effort--the true prize of the war--or, this strikes us as more likely--they are subject to politically-dictated rules of engagement deliberately designed to trash the city so the smiling Secretary of Defense can genially say, over and over, "it will take years to piece together any evidence, by which time the 2004 election will be over and we can forget about it...."
( via ethel the blog )
plus : we love the iraqi information minister.com
With Encouraging Looting
"The following article is from Sweden's largest daily newspaper" (not that being any country's "largest daily" is any recomendation.)
.....Khaled Bayomi looks a bit surprised when he looks at the American officer on TV regret that they dont have any resources to stop the looting in Baghdad.
"I happened to be there just as the US forces told people to commence looting."
Do you mean to say that it was the US troops that initiated the looting?
"Absolutely. The lack of scenes of joy had the US forces in need of images of Iraqis who in different ways demonstrated their disgust with Saddam's regime ......"
plus Did US Dealers/Collectors
Organize Museum Looting?
OR THIS PERSPECTIVE OF THE LOOTING
"There are two kinds of unprofessionalism being displayed in Baghdad--on the one hand, the general looting has done more damage that all the military fires--and we note that the Marines in Panama stopped looting cold in its tracks by shooting the first looter; on the other hand, the loss of vital official documents to general fires and mob rampaging is extraordinary. "
"We can only conclude that either the CENTRAL COMMAND is completely oblivious to and ineffective in managing the intelligence collection effort--the true prize of the war--or, this strikes us as more likely--they are subject to politically-dictated rules of engagement deliberately designed to trash the city so the smiling Secretary of Defense can genially say, over and over, "it will take years to piece together any evidence, by which time the 2004 election will be over and we can forget about it...."
( via ethel the blog )
plus : we love the iraqi information minister.com
Monday, 14 April 2003
via MID EAST LOG
"the brutal occupiers in Palestine have again stolen the news.
They have now killed another innocent peacekeeper.
Thomas Hurndall was defending children when the Israeli Nazis open fired with live ammo.
Say what you will, but anyone who uses live ammunition on a scene of a non-violent demonstration is no better than Hussein or the Chinese. They are brutal Nazis.
the activists were being shot at while protecting some children from Israeli gunfire. Tom was in plain view of the sniper towers and was wearing a bright orange fluorescent jacket with reflective stripes. The nine ISM activists and many children were in the process of leaving the area. Sniper fire from the tower was hitting the wall close beside the children, who were afraid to move. Tom was attempting to bring them to safety when he was shot. There was no shooting or resistance coming from the Palestinian side at all."
"the brutal occupiers in Palestine have again stolen the news.
They have now killed another innocent peacekeeper.
Thomas Hurndall was defending children when the Israeli Nazis open fired with live ammo.
Say what you will, but anyone who uses live ammunition on a scene of a non-violent demonstration is no better than Hussein or the Chinese. They are brutal Nazis.
the activists were being shot at while protecting some children from Israeli gunfire. Tom was in plain view of the sniper towers and was wearing a bright orange fluorescent jacket with reflective stripes. The nine ISM activists and many children were in the process of leaving the area. Sniper fire from the tower was hitting the wall close beside the children, who were afraid to move. Tom was attempting to bring them to safety when he was shot. There was no shooting or resistance coming from the Palestinian side at all."
Naomi Klein
in the guardian
".....what is a recessionary, growth-addicted superpower to do? How about upgrading from Free Trade Lite, which wrestles market access through backroom bullying at the WTO, to Free Trade Supercharged, which seizes new markets on the battlefields of pre-emptive wars? After all, negotiations with sovereign countries can be hard. Far easier to just tear up the country, occupy it, then rebuild it the way you want. Bush hasn't abandoned free trade, as some have claimed, he just has a new doctrine: "Bomb before you buy"....."
".....Some argue that it's too simplistic to say this war is about oil. They're right. It's about oil, water, roads, trains, phones, ports and drugs. And if this process isn't halted, "free Iraq" will be the most sold country on earth......"
".....The United States Agency for International Development has invited US multinationals to bid on everything from rebuilding roads and bridges to distributing textbooks. The length of time these contracts will last is left unspecified....."
".....Republican congressman Darrel Issa has introduced a bill that would require the defence department to build a CDMA cellphone system in postwar Iraq in order to benefit "US patent holders"....."
"....The $4.8m management contract for the port in Umm Qasr has already gone to a US company, Stevedoring Services....."
"....Fadhil Chalabi, a former Iraqi petroleum minister and executive director of the Center for Global Energy Studies, is part of a group of Iraqi exiles that has been advising the state department on how to implement privatisation in such a way that it isn't seen to be coming from the US...."
"....the Iraqi people, starved and sickened by sanctions, then pulverised by war, are going to emerge from this trauma to find that their country had been sold out from under them. They will also discover that their new-found "freedom" - for which so many of their loved ones perished - comes pre-shackled by irreversible economic decisions that were made in boardrooms while the bombs were still falling. They will then be told to vote for their new leaders, and welcomed to the wonderful world of democracy.....
in the guardian
".....what is a recessionary, growth-addicted superpower to do? How about upgrading from Free Trade Lite, which wrestles market access through backroom bullying at the WTO, to Free Trade Supercharged, which seizes new markets on the battlefields of pre-emptive wars? After all, negotiations with sovereign countries can be hard. Far easier to just tear up the country, occupy it, then rebuild it the way you want. Bush hasn't abandoned free trade, as some have claimed, he just has a new doctrine: "Bomb before you buy"....."
".....Some argue that it's too simplistic to say this war is about oil. They're right. It's about oil, water, roads, trains, phones, ports and drugs. And if this process isn't halted, "free Iraq" will be the most sold country on earth......"
".....The United States Agency for International Development has invited US multinationals to bid on everything from rebuilding roads and bridges to distributing textbooks. The length of time these contracts will last is left unspecified....."
".....Republican congressman Darrel Issa has introduced a bill that would require the defence department to build a CDMA cellphone system in postwar Iraq in order to benefit "US patent holders"....."
"....The $4.8m management contract for the port in Umm Qasr has already gone to a US company, Stevedoring Services....."
"....Fadhil Chalabi, a former Iraqi petroleum minister and executive director of the Center for Global Energy Studies, is part of a group of Iraqi exiles that has been advising the state department on how to implement privatisation in such a way that it isn't seen to be coming from the US...."
"....the Iraqi people, starved and sickened by sanctions, then pulverised by war, are going to emerge from this trauma to find that their country had been sold out from under them. They will also discover that their new-found "freedom" - for which so many of their loved ones perished - comes pre-shackled by irreversible economic decisions that were made in boardrooms while the bombs were still falling. They will then be told to vote for their new leaders, and welcomed to the wonderful world of democracy.....
Chris Morris, the maverick satirist behind the controversial Brass Eye paedophilia special that received more complaints than any other programme in TV history, will return to Channel 4 next year.
Sunday, 13 April 2003
Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916 as a reaction against the extreme horror and absurdity of war along with the strait-jacket of tradition.
SOLDIERS AND MENTAL HEALTH
during a phone-in on 'the wright stuff', channel five the other week, they were discussing how soldiers are often unprepared for the intense horrors of warfare. how the 'job description' tends to highlight other criteria.....travel, a good career, learn a trade, blah blah.
one caller talked about her sister's husband who returned from the last gulf war with violent mood swings which eventually lead to his suicide.
another caller was a soldier who had just returned from the current war. she described her inability to adjust to the peace of her home life and no longer having any need of her respirator equipment whenever she tried to sleep.
someone on the show mentioned the statistic that a quarter of people living rough in the uk have an army background.
there was one caller however, that they eventually cut off, who complained that modern day soldiers were whingers. he believed that during the prolonged duration of the 2nd world war "people just got on with it." a stiff upper lip and all that.
this brought up the subject of the stigma of mental health problems. how its acceptable to be treated for a bullet wound but mental damage is still not "real injury".
it was mentioned that generally there are many people in psychiatric hospitals who don't get visits from their families because of the "shame".
ex soldier simon barr was a guest and he advised any soldiers watching the show to go through their g.p. rather than through the unsupportive channels of the ministry of defence.
during a phone-in on 'the wright stuff', channel five the other week, they were discussing how soldiers are often unprepared for the intense horrors of warfare. how the 'job description' tends to highlight other criteria.....travel, a good career, learn a trade, blah blah.
one caller talked about her sister's husband who returned from the last gulf war with violent mood swings which eventually lead to his suicide.
another caller was a soldier who had just returned from the current war. she described her inability to adjust to the peace of her home life and no longer having any need of her respirator equipment whenever she tried to sleep.
someone on the show mentioned the statistic that a quarter of people living rough in the uk have an army background.
there was one caller however, that they eventually cut off, who complained that modern day soldiers were whingers. he believed that during the prolonged duration of the 2nd world war "people just got on with it." a stiff upper lip and all that.
this brought up the subject of the stigma of mental health problems. how its acceptable to be treated for a bullet wound but mental damage is still not "real injury".
it was mentioned that generally there are many people in psychiatric hospitals who don't get visits from their families because of the "shame".
ex soldier simon barr was a guest and he advised any soldiers watching the show to go through their g.p. rather than through the unsupportive channels of the ministry of defence.
NARRATIVE CONTROL
Dissent grows
"a sign of possible dissent in the British ranks is a report (march 31st) that three unnamed soldiers from the 16 Air Assault Brigade have been sent home to face a court martial. They are understood to have complained about the way the war is being fought and the growing danger to civilians."
....meanwhile The British government faces a "huge uphill battle" in countering the "complete fiction" constructed by the Arab media about the war in Iraq, Tony Blair's chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell claimed in a TV interview being screened in Australia (mar 31st).
He added: "Democracies are expected to explain; we cannot tell lies in the way that dictatorships tell lies all the time, both about themselves and about us"......blah blah blah
but hey, truth or lies, who cares when its all adds up to record ratings....
march 24th: ITV won its highest news audience since the death of Princess Diana six years ago, reflecting the nation's hunger for war coverage of the war......(as opposed to war coverage of the war coverage.)
and finally....
mar 31st: "It is reported this morning that American troops are attempting to communicate with Iraqis in the field via a hand-held electronic box known as a Phrasealator, which was first tried out in Afghanistan.
The user points to one of 1,000 phrases on a menu - such as "come out with your hands up" - and the box squawks out the message in Pashtu, Dari, Urdu or, in this case, Arabic. Unfortunately, there is no way the Americans can understand what the Iraqis say in reply."
for fucks sake, they've had long enough to learn.
Dissent grows
"a sign of possible dissent in the British ranks is a report (march 31st) that three unnamed soldiers from the 16 Air Assault Brigade have been sent home to face a court martial. They are understood to have complained about the way the war is being fought and the growing danger to civilians."
....meanwhile The British government faces a "huge uphill battle" in countering the "complete fiction" constructed by the Arab media about the war in Iraq, Tony Blair's chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell claimed in a TV interview being screened in Australia (mar 31st).
He added: "Democracies are expected to explain; we cannot tell lies in the way that dictatorships tell lies all the time, both about themselves and about us"......blah blah blah
but hey, truth or lies, who cares when its all adds up to record ratings....
march 24th: ITV won its highest news audience since the death of Princess Diana six years ago, reflecting the nation's hunger for war coverage of the war......(as opposed to war coverage of the war coverage.)
and finally....
mar 31st: "It is reported this morning that American troops are attempting to communicate with Iraqis in the field via a hand-held electronic box known as a Phrasealator, which was first tried out in Afghanistan.
The user points to one of 1,000 phrases on a menu - such as "come out with your hands up" - and the box squawks out the message in Pashtu, Dari, Urdu or, in this case, Arabic. Unfortunately, there is no way the Americans can understand what the Iraqis say in reply."
for fucks sake, they've had long enough to learn.
THE WAR FOR HEARTS AND MINDS
i was really hoping not to mention the desperately feeble contrivance of that statue in baghdad being pulled down. you know, when every media outlet regurgitated the word "momentous" like mad mother birds feeding pretend worms to their hungry chicks. reluctantly i have to mention it. but i'll begin with sept 11th.
when the events of sept 11th first unfolded i had just arrived at the gym and almost everybody in there was crowded around the tv. now apart from the fact that i seemed to be the only person vocally excited at the prospect of bush being killed, not to mention my obvious glee over the audacious trashing of the pentagon, the thing that i was most struck by was overhearing people saying: "we'll remember where we were when this happened. just like when diana/kennedy blah blah."
in other words there were a lot of people quite literally reading aloud from a banal and dog-eared script. they weren't really expressing any great feeling, they were fixing a single kodak moment in an authorised manner. in fact the banality is all the more extreme when all that most people will actually remember is that they were watching telly and mobiling their friends who were also watching telly.
i mention all this because the other day i heard bush saying something like "just like everybody else who saw those momentous images of the statue of sadam being pulled down, i'll never forget it."
well theres plenty i'll never forget about this war, but a tight camera angle on a statue and a small group of iraqi people, otherwise surrounded by soldiers and journalists, just isn't one of them.
no. something i don't ever want to forget is that on the previous day the invading army shot at and killed yet more journalists in another attempt to silence and terrorise them into towing the line. and its worth repeating again the quote from bbc kate adie concerning the "Pentagon Threat to Kill Independent Journalists"
"The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie.
In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: "Who cares.. ..They've been warned.
Another guest on the show, war author Phillip Knightley, reported that the Pentagon has also threatened they: "may find it necessary to bomb areas in which war correspondents are attempting to report from the Iraqi side." "
which brings me to this from yesterday's guardian
On one of the bleakest days since the invasion began, US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday shrugged off turmoil and looting in Iraq as signs of the people's freedom.
Mr Rumsfeld insisted that words such as anarchy and lawlessness were unrepresentative of the situation in Iraq and "absolutely" ill-chosen.
"I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn't believe it," he said. "....all this newspaper could do, with eight or 10 headlines, they showed a man bleeding, a civilian, who they claimed we had shot - one thing after another. It's just unbelievable ..." (unlike the global frontpage 'believability' of a few people with a statue, eh mr rumsfield?)
In an extraordinary performance reminiscent of the Iraqi information minister who assured the world that all was well even as battles raged visibly around him, Mr Rumsfeld quipped: "The images you are seeing on television you are seeing over, and over, and over, and it's the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase, and you see it 20 times, and you think, 'My goodness, were there that many vases? Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?' "
In what appeared to be a concerted effort to damp down media coverage of the chaos, the British government simultaneously laid into the BBC and its defence correspondent, Andrew Gilligan, accusing them of "trying to make the news" rather than reporting it.
A spokesman for prime minister Tony Blair claimed that "in the main the anarchy and disorder is being directed against symbols of the regime". Mr Gilligan hit back: "The reality is half the shopping district [in Baghdad] is now being looted. Downing Street may be saying it's only regime targets that are being attacked. I'm afraid it isn't."
i was really hoping not to mention the desperately feeble contrivance of that statue in baghdad being pulled down. you know, when every media outlet regurgitated the word "momentous" like mad mother birds feeding pretend worms to their hungry chicks. reluctantly i have to mention it. but i'll begin with sept 11th.
when the events of sept 11th first unfolded i had just arrived at the gym and almost everybody in there was crowded around the tv. now apart from the fact that i seemed to be the only person vocally excited at the prospect of bush being killed, not to mention my obvious glee over the audacious trashing of the pentagon, the thing that i was most struck by was overhearing people saying: "we'll remember where we were when this happened. just like when diana/kennedy blah blah."
in other words there were a lot of people quite literally reading aloud from a banal and dog-eared script. they weren't really expressing any great feeling, they were fixing a single kodak moment in an authorised manner. in fact the banality is all the more extreme when all that most people will actually remember is that they were watching telly and mobiling their friends who were also watching telly.
i mention all this because the other day i heard bush saying something like "just like everybody else who saw those momentous images of the statue of sadam being pulled down, i'll never forget it."
well theres plenty i'll never forget about this war, but a tight camera angle on a statue and a small group of iraqi people, otherwise surrounded by soldiers and journalists, just isn't one of them.
no. something i don't ever want to forget is that on the previous day the invading army shot at and killed yet more journalists in another attempt to silence and terrorise them into towing the line. and its worth repeating again the quote from bbc kate adie concerning the "Pentagon Threat to Kill Independent Journalists"
"The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie.
In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: "Who cares.. ..They've been warned.
Another guest on the show, war author Phillip Knightley, reported that the Pentagon has also threatened they: "may find it necessary to bomb areas in which war correspondents are attempting to report from the Iraqi side." "
which brings me to this from yesterday's guardian
On one of the bleakest days since the invasion began, US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday shrugged off turmoil and looting in Iraq as signs of the people's freedom.
Mr Rumsfeld insisted that words such as anarchy and lawlessness were unrepresentative of the situation in Iraq and "absolutely" ill-chosen.
"I picked up a newspaper today and I couldn't believe it," he said. "....all this newspaper could do, with eight or 10 headlines, they showed a man bleeding, a civilian, who they claimed we had shot - one thing after another. It's just unbelievable ..." (unlike the global frontpage 'believability' of a few people with a statue, eh mr rumsfield?)
In an extraordinary performance reminiscent of the Iraqi information minister who assured the world that all was well even as battles raged visibly around him, Mr Rumsfeld quipped: "The images you are seeing on television you are seeing over, and over, and over, and it's the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase, and you see it 20 times, and you think, 'My goodness, were there that many vases? Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?' "
In what appeared to be a concerted effort to damp down media coverage of the chaos, the British government simultaneously laid into the BBC and its defence correspondent, Andrew Gilligan, accusing them of "trying to make the news" rather than reporting it.
A spokesman for prime minister Tony Blair claimed that "in the main the anarchy and disorder is being directed against symbols of the regime". Mr Gilligan hit back: "The reality is half the shopping district [in Baghdad] is now being looted. Downing Street may be saying it's only regime targets that are being attacked. I'm afraid it isn't."
Reporters Without Borders accuses US military of deliberately firing at journalists
Reporters Without Borders called on US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to provide evidence that the offices of the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera and the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad were not deliberately fired at by US forces in attacks that killed three journalists.
"we can only conclude that the US Army deliberately and without warning targeted journalists. US forces must prove that the incident was not a deliberate attack to dissuade or prevent journalists from continuing to report on what is happening in Baghdad,"
"Very many non-embedded journalists have complained about being refused entry to Iraq from Kuwait, threatened with withdrawal of accreditation and being held and interrogated for several hours. One group of non-embedded journalists was held in secret for two days and roughed up by US military police,"
Reporters Without Borders called on US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to provide evidence that the offices of the pan-Arab TV station Al-Jazeera and the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad were not deliberately fired at by US forces in attacks that killed three journalists.
"we can only conclude that the US Army deliberately and without warning targeted journalists. US forces must prove that the incident was not a deliberate attack to dissuade or prevent journalists from continuing to report on what is happening in Baghdad,"
"Very many non-embedded journalists have complained about being refused entry to Iraq from Kuwait, threatened with withdrawal of accreditation and being held and interrogated for several hours. One group of non-embedded journalists was held in secret for two days and roughed up by US military police,"
TV WAR
last sunday afternoon i switched on the bbc news to witness bbc reporter john simpson recounting the friendly fire his convoy had just been hit by.
he mentioned that "some people were burning alive in front of me......which wasn't very nice," as only someone from the bbc could describe people burning before their own eyes. it was like watching a war report delivered by the dead queen mum.
the report included camera footage, with a drop of blood landing on the lens, a hand tried to wipe the blood, but only succeeded in smearing it right the way across our screens.
last sunday afternoon i switched on the bbc news to witness bbc reporter john simpson recounting the friendly fire his convoy had just been hit by.
he mentioned that "some people were burning alive in front of me......which wasn't very nice," as only someone from the bbc could describe people burning before their own eyes. it was like watching a war report delivered by the dead queen mum.
the report included camera footage, with a drop of blood landing on the lens, a hand tried to wipe the blood, but only succeeded in smearing it right the way across our screens.
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