BBC: No surprises in the war on terror

[CJCRANE]

"In the past few days we have seen two uncomfortable facets of the war on terror.
One was from Basra, where the two-year-old video of British soldiers brutally beating young Iraqi stone-throwers has surfaced in the pages of a British tabloid newspaper."

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The other uncomfortable details which have emerged in the past few days relate to the prison at Guantanamo Bay, where 517 men are being held without trial.

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Let's recapitulate briefly. According to the US Department of Defense, only 8% of the prisoners at Guantanamo were al-Qaeda fighters, and only 5% of them were captured by the Americans themselves."

Article: http://tinyurl.com/7ts9e

[CJCRANE]

1. Does this very article show why the video

was released now?

The video story seems to have upstaged the new revelations about Guantanamo.