IRAQ:   Media Held Guilty of Deception
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ROME, Feb 14 (IPS) - A peoples tribunal has held much of Western media  guilty of inciting violence and deceiving people in its reporting  of Iraq.
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The BBC, Britain&#39;s public service broadcaster, acknowledged on Friday that it had been tricked into broadcasting an interview with a man pretending to be a spokesman
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BBC World said on Friday it was duped in  an "elaborate deception" by a man who claimed to be a Dow  Chemical Co. spokesman and said in an interview the U.S.  company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster.
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Clerics differ on who was responsible for the kidnapping in Baghdad.
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Two nonprofit journalism groups found that the Bush Administration issued hundreds of falsehoods about the threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks
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Meanwhile, the three Iraqis already in custody for their alleged roles in the plot denied the accusations against them during questioning Saturday by a judge, Der Spiegel newsweekly reported Saturday.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has been accused of either lies or incompetence in his handling of the Iraq war, by Greg Dyke, former director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Marines in Iraq were convicted by military trials of committing a variety of abuses of captured Iraqis.
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Chinese police have arrested a journalist accused of faking an investigative report on buns stuffed with shredded cardboard that made headlines around the world, and Beijing Television apologized for airing the footage.
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A report claiming that specially trained Australian soldiers are taking part in US-led covert jobs in Iraq, including kidnapping, was "factually incorrect and misleading," the government said.
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LONDON British Prime Minister Tony Blair is being accused of &quot;clearly misleading&quot; the British public over plans for postwar Iraq.
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Iraq's government was mired in  confusion on Sunday on whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein  aide still on the run had been caught, with the defense  minister denying his own ministry's report the fugitive had  been seized.
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Media & professional: Independent production company tells BBC it was 'guilty of a serious error of judgment'.
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The former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney was found guilty on Tuesday of lying and obstructing a probe related to the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war and could face years in prison.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A United States&#39; military policeman pleaded guilty today in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal. Sergeant Ivan Frederick is being court-martialed for his role in mistreating detainees at Abu Graib prison.
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6 September 2004 -- Iraq says that medical tests conducted on a arrested man have proven he is not Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking former Iraqi government official still at large.
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BAGHDAD: An Iraqi judge denied Thursday that murder charges against the former head of Iraq&#39;s special tribunal, Salam Chalabi, had been dropped after the prominent lawyer declared he had been found innocent.