The picture that fooled the world The picture reproduced here is of Fikret Alic, a Bosnian Muslim, emaciated and stripped to the waist, apparently imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence in a Bosnian Serb camp at Trnopolje. It was taken from a videotape shot on 5 August 1992 by an award-winning British television team, led by Penny Marshall (ITN) with her cameraman Jeremy Irvin, accompanied by Ian Williams (Channel 4) and the reporter Ed Vulliamy from the Guardian newspaper. The evidence on these pages shows that Fikret Alic and his fellow Bosnian Muslims were not imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence. There was no barbed wire fence surrounding Trnopolje camp. It was not a prison, and certainly not a 'concentration camp', but a transit camp and collection centre for refugees, many of whom went there seeking safety and could leave again if they wished. Technical notes To view the footage download the Real plug-in for sound clips, and the QuickTime plug-in for video clips. Approximate download times are for a 28.8k modem.