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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: Death Camps and Desert Storm Frame Bosnia Coverage By Dusan Djordjevich Emaciated prisoners, cattle car deportations, genocide. This summer, starting with a Newsday expose (8/2/92) based on the testimonies of two Bosnian Muslims, an extraordinary flood of emotionally charged words and pictures led the evening news, made the covers of Time and Newsweek, and dominated political commentary. From Bill Clinton to Margaret Thatcher, Anthony Lewis to Jeanne Kirkpatrick, calls to action--and to arms--gained momentum and a sense of moral imperative. As a Washington Post editorial argued ("And Now, Death Camps," 8/5/92), the Serbs' "Nazi-like war crimes" were the "clincher" in asserting the need to try "some sort of military option." "The net effect of the week of horrors and political reactions to them," the Post reported (8/9/92), "was to increase sharply U.S. and international pressure against Serbia and to move the United States closer to taking part in U.N. military intervention in the former Yugoslav republics." Amid the sensationalist coverage, a few sobering facts filtered through. U.S. intelligence officials, who had "redoubled and tripled their efforts to establish what had been happening in detention camps for Croats and Muslims," found no evidence of systematic killing of prisoners (New York Times, 8/23/92--although Times editorialists continued to write of death camps and "genocide," 8/28/92). The Guardian's correspondent (8/12/92) reported that "all camps run by the Serbian Army [as opposed to two run by autonomous militias] were of good standard." To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1205 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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