Rhiannon wrote: Even if the men weren't locked up /tied up it (and they are 'pirates') it doesn't cancel out the fact that the whaling ship was inside the conservation zone.
I love the way the BBC report runs the Japanese denial of the tying up without any comment.
Twelve hours before the BBC report was published, the Telegraph posted a report including a photo of one of the men tied up whilst the whalers dealt with the other
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=1BECRQXPOCJABQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/15/eawhale115.xml
Lazy journalism, or the bias due to the BBC having an embedded reporter on the Greenpeace vessel (who have something of a rivalry with Sea Shepherd)?
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