Well, I can't say I remember Mussolini being strung up, I wasn't reading the papers back then. But my understanding is that there was a fair amount of adverse comment about the pictures, not because people liked Mussolini, but for the same reason there always tends to be about photos of messed up dead bodies in papers. People read the paper while eating breakfast, and children are likely to see newspapers - those kinds of reasons.

But the point was, those were photos taken by a press photographer, following an execution carried out by partisans.

Once again, it's MI>not a question of protecting the Saddams, but of holding the line against developments that threaten to make things worse for ordinary prisoners in all conflicts.