'Uncanny parallels' between Bloody Sunday and Basra: Eamonn McCann

national | miscellaneous | news report Saturday March 29, 2003 21:01 by Tom Mullins

Eamonn McCann, on WBAI, said there were uncanny parallels between the British propaganda about Bloody Sunday and current attempts to demonize Iraqi resistance. Which is not surprising, said McCann, because the leader of the British forces, Mike Jackson, was an intelligence officer with the Parachute Regiment at the Bloody Sunday massacre. Blair was trying to show the 'uncivilized' nature of the Iraqis. And the claim that you can't distinguish between civilians and gunmen was made in Derry as it is in Basra. The British, said McCann, were attempting to demonize Iraqis for things they themselves had done over and over again.