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The images of muslim detainees in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Graib infuriated Muslim audiences. Several months later, the execution videos of Western hostages both terrified and sickened Western audiences. Are images more central to the War on Terror than in previous conflicts? Is the War on Terror bringing in its wake a new propaganda war over images, and what is distinctive about that war? Speakers: Mark Danner, Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Torture and Truth; Philip Knightley, author of The First Casualty; Hugh Miles, author of Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World; Mireille Thornton, LSE. Chair: Philip Hammond, Philip Hammond is senior lecturer in media at London South Bank University and co-editor of Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis.