Remember that bittersweet rescue mission where British soldiers strapped themselves to an Apache to get to a fallen comrade? They didn't manage to save his life, but they got to him before the Taliban did. Some people would imagine that the op should be emphasized as a source of pride for the British public. Some people would beg to differ:

Presenter Lyse Doucet’s astonishing statement comes as an Apache gunship hero revealed the fanatics aim to capture a British soldier and skin him alive on the internet. Military Cross winner Ed Macy — whose book Apache is serialised in The Sun from today — tells how an intelligence officer gave details of the Taliban butchers’ sick plan. It made Army Air Corps Warrant Officer Macy and his comrades even more determined to rescue a mortally wounded Marine from a Taliban stronghold — which they did with four soldiers strapped to the outside of two Apaches. But BBC World News correspondent Doucet claimed the public also want to seeing the kinder side of the Afghan extremists. Asked what was missing in media coverage, she said: “It may sound odd but the humanity of the Taliban, because they are a wide, very diverse group of people.”.

Revelatory, what some people choose to care about. Because there's probably a case to be made that this story should be about the nature of the enemy that the West is fighting:

But Macy recalls in his book how the room fell silent when the intelligence officer briefed him and his comrades after chilling Taliban radio messages were intercepted. He writes: “She said, ‘The Taliban have a new plan for what they’ll do if they capture a British soldier. They intend to set up a webcam for a live internet broadcast and then skin him alive’.”

Sure it's misguided and crass - but at least it's not unsophisticated.

References:
* Video: Royal Marines strap themselves to Apache’s wings to rescue comrade [Hot Air]
* No humanity for 'evil' Taliban [The Sun]

Previously:
* BBC, CBS Now Just Making Stuff Up About Israeli Military
* The BBC Lies
* BBC Misleads in Article, Clarifies in Sidebar, Regarding Israeli Settlements