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Sky suspends journalists over bogus story War dispatch showing 'firing' of cruise missile filmed from docked sub Matt Wells, media correspondent Thursday July 17, 2003 The Guardian Sky News faked a television report from a Royal Navy submarine during the Iraq war, according to a documentary team that filmed on the same vessel. The Sky report, which was "security cleared" by a Ministry of Defence official and shown on at least one other British TV network, purported to show the preparation and firing of a cruise missile. But the submarine was docked and the documentary crew says the events were...

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- James Forlong, a Sky News reporter who quit amid accusations that he faked a report during the war on Iraq, has been found dead, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported, citing local police. Forlong, 44, who had worked for Sky News for 10 years, was found dead at his home in Hove, southern England by local police in the early hours of Saturday morning, the BBC said. Police said the circumstances surrounding his death were not suspicious, the BBC reported. Forlong resigned from the satellite television news channel three months ago over allegations that he faked a...