Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry, no, not in the same camp. It is just written like that because spelling Iranians is much easier than spelling Iraqians which my spell checker keeps rejecting. Or was it a S.M.? Chris >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 - -- 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