"Made it all up"...............
You SURE, Graham.........
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6090448.stm
Watched a piece on the news earlier this week which was reporting on how several Chinese journalists had been arrested for posting views "contrary to those of National Policy". The sad thing is, Google helped the Chinese Authorities to track down those who dared to post those views.
I only mentioned Google there because they were cited in the news item.
Others also operate in China and they also appear to cow-tow to the lack of human rights still held by the worlds newest "bestest friends".
It seems that Human Rights (and the way the "West" view them) take a back seat when it comes to big business and a rapidly growing economy. Even to the point of "turning a blind eye" to Tibetan monks being murdered in the Himalayers..........as shown on ITN on Tuesday night. Why were they (one was a 25 year old nun) shot?........because they were crossing the high Himalayers to Nepal to visit the Dalai Lama (long since exiled from Tibet following Chinese rule in the '50's). More than one was murdered and many (including children) were "taken away" - their fate not known. The Chinese Govt say their border soldiers acted "in self defence"..........with rifles fitted with tele sites ?????.......not a convincing arguement having seen the video.........the whole thing was captured on video by a team of mountaineers.
From Reuters:
"Video footage shot by a Romanian television station appears to show Chinese soldiers firing at a group of Tibetans as they attempt to cross a mountain pass into Nepal, days after China defended the soldiers' action.
The video, taken by Romania's Pro TV, shows a line of people trekking through the snow when sounds of gunfire are heard and one of the figures crumples to the ground.
The footage is shot from too far away to make out identities, but a voice can be heard saying in English, "They are shooting them like dogs".
A group of climbers from Britain and Australia told Reuters last week that on September 30 they watched Chinese border guards take aim at a group of 20 to 30 people as they prepared to cross from Chinese territory into Nepal.
Tibet has been ruled by China since Communist troops invaded in 1950, and the government deals harshly with Tibetans who press for greater political and religious freedoms.
Hundreds of people cross the Himalayas to Nepal every year, most of them en route to the Indian hill station of Dharamsala, the home of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and Tibet's government-in-exile.
China's state media has confirmed that troops fired on about 70 people near the frontier with Nepal and that one of them died.
But it defended the shooting, saying the group was trying to cross the border illegally and attacked the soldiers when they tried to persuade the group to return home.
The video shows no such confrontation, and the London-based International Campaign for Tibet, which said a Tibetan nun was killed in the incident, rejected China's defence."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2417998,00.html
Sorry to have gone off on one there..................but perhaps you weren't too far from the truth, Graham.
There might be a last minuet panic for a headlamp tho' cos the Zoom I bought off fleebay hasn't arrived yet. 
