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Don't believe everything you see and read about Gaddafi, by Patrick Cockburn

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World View: Both sides in this conflict are guilty of spreading propaganda -- and foreign journalists have on occasion been all too eager to help.
Ever since the Libyan uprising started on 15 February, the foreign media have regurgitated stories of atrocities carried out by Gaddafi's forces. It is now becoming clear that reputable human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been unable to find evidence for the worst of these. For instance, they could find no credible witnesses to the mass rapes said to have been ordered by Gaddafi. Foreign mercenaries supposedly recruited by Gaddafi and shown off to the press were later quietly released when they turned out to be undocumented labourers from central and west Africa.It is a weakness of journalists that they give wide publicity to atrocities, evidence for which may be shaky when first revealed.
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