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Subject: Re: [Leica] Air Force can't handle old Leica
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:02:32 -0800
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Chris

Iraqis and Iranians in the same camp?

Jerry

Christer Almqvist wrote:

> This week's Der Spiegel (#11, page 3) reports on one of their
> journalists  visiting the US Air Force base in Tasár in Hungary where
> Iraq exiles are being trained by the US for participating etc etc....
>
> Spiegel's reporter, contrary to reporters from the US and the UK, was
> constantly shadowed by a polite but stickt official ensuring that he
> did not get too close to the Iranians. All journalists had to sign a
> paper accepting what questions were allowed and not, and what could
> be photographed and not.
>
> At the end of the visit everybody was asked to show the pictures they
> had made. One could not, the man from Der Spiegel. Everybody else had
> been shooting digital and could show their pictures. The Spiegel man
> had used his 'old Leica' and had no pictures to show, at least not on
> the spot. In the end he had to sign a declaration to make the persons
> unidentifiable on all pictures published.
>
> It was not mentioned if the old Leica was a 'Luftwaffe', but I guess
> that would have been more helpful than if it had been marked
> 'Kriegsmarine'.
>
> Chris
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>
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