Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > -- > Christer Almqvist > D 20255 Hamburg and / or > F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer > > please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ > > old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html