The BBC's anti-war bias is so blatant, that it's become a running joke in many places.

Notice how the reporter instantly gives the impression that the Americans were lying about being shot at first, and that the people walking up to him on the street were telling the truth. In fact, notice how the reporter never actually talked to coalition troops, having arrived after the task force left. And again, as with all the "man in the street" scenarios, how many people did he talk to in order to collect the opinions he was looking for? An Iraqi interview saying "Thank Allah that the Americans have killed those two monsters!" would go right in the dumpster.

Note also the well-known verbal trick of inflating the few people he interviewed into "many Iraqis." How many? Five? Ten? Twenty? Is this a valid sample of twenty million?

Yet the sentence, "The death of five civilians here at the hands of an elite task force hunting members of the former regime has prompted condemnation from many Iraqis at what they call heavy-handed and uncaring tactics." will receive widespread quotation around the world.

This reporter has no idea how those civilians were killed, but figured, why not give the impression that Americans just shot civilians for no particular reason?

The second article is a load of nonsense. A Google search of "Athens Bar Council" returns exactly zero entries. Ten bucks says they didn't exist a year ago.