burying bad news

on tuesday it was this

[T]wo British soldiers, reportedly dressed as Arabs and driving a civilian car, attracted the notice of police at a checkpoint.
According to the Iraqi authorities they refused to stop, instead allegedly firing at the officers, killing one and wounding another.

...by today it is this:

UK soldiers have described the moment when they were forced to flee their burning armoured vehicle during unrest in Basra, southern Iraq, on Monday.

similar change of focus in the guardian:

The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block.

becomes:

British soldiers yesterday gave dramatic accounts of how they escaped from their burning Warrior armoured vehicles after an angry mob attacked them with petrol bombs in downtown Basra, following the explosion of violence on Monday night.

what is not being reported is this:

The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, [an Iraqi Interior Ministry source] said.

funny that isn't it? rather than focusing on the fact that british soldiers have been caught posing as terrorists (possibly with bomb-making equipment), the media is now distracting everyone with tales of how heroic our gallant plucky lads are. the furious iraqis are of course 'mobs', not people intent on seeing murderers being brought to justice. the only background in the latest bbc story is that the soldiers were involved in a "rescue operation", not that they were undermining iraqi sovereignty in a desperate attempt to prevent undercover operations coming to light.

but then there couldn't possibly be anything underhand going on could there? we know our media would swiftly expose that...