BBC on-line news service today reported on the visit of Stephen Kenny to David Hicks, Australian held in Guantanamo for the last two years.

BBC 'Headline' - The'Unequal treatment' at Guantanamo (Definite statement)

BBC Intro -
David Hicks has been held at Guantanamo for two years
A lawyer who has visited his client being held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told the BBC prisoners there are not being treated equally.

Now in the intro we are told basically - A lawyer has told the BBC that prisoners are not being treated equally. Again like the headline a pretty definite statement.

Because if you read the text of the article you get this:

"Mr Kenny said inmates appeared to be treated differently...."

and this:

"This is a case where the standard of justice seems to have different layers, one for the Americans, there may be another one for the British, there is certainly a different one for Australian - less than the American - and the rest of them in the camp... they weren't [part of] the allies' camp is their rationale and they will get a lesser standard than what the Australians will."

The statements aren't so definite now:

"appeared to be" ???? That makes it definite!
"seems to have" ???? That makes it definite!
"there may be" ???? That makes it definite!

Why couldn't the Beeb just reported it factually and honestly, all it would have taken would have been to put a question mark at the end of their headline.