"Don't move or we'll shoot."

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http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/cra0227.htm

Lies the Pentagon Told Us: America Still Has an Office of Disinformation. It's Called the Pentagon

11 March 2002

<snip>Technically, this is a secrecy policy, not censorship. But it permits lying at a far more effective level. Censorship rules can always be broken by eyewitnesses, but it's harder to report what you can't see. If the government says such-and-such a target was surgically bombed and so many al-Qaeda members were killed, you can repeat it in the newspaper, but you can't refute or corroborate it.

Lately, the military has gotten annoyed with pesky reporters concerned that the "military public affairs community" might be lying about its selection of military targets in Afghanistan - and how it is that so many civilians have been killed and wounded when bombing has been likened to a delicate medical procedure. Last month, Washington Post reporter Doug Struck went to investigate some corpses in a village and was held at gunpoint by a US Army officer who told him, perhaps truthfully, "Don't move or we'll shoot."