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Video Veracity
The MSM is raising questions about the veracity of this this IDF video. While the IDF says these are Grad rockets in the back of the truck, McClatchy News and The Independent, among others, pick up on B'tselem claims to the contrary. The BBC writes:
It turned out, however, that a 55-year-old Gaza resident named Ahmed Sanur, or Samur, claimed that the truck was his and that he and members of his family and his workers were moving oxygen cylinders from his workshop.
It's incredibly brazen that the MSM is now interested in debunking Mideast footage. They're charging Israel with Pallywood tactics.
Where were all these so-called "watchdogs" when the Mohammed al-Dura video inflamed the Arab world, when the Gaza beach video was the basis of another blood libel, when Lebanon fauxtography pulled the wool over everyone's eyes?
Here's the IDF video that has the MSM buzzing:
See more at The Big Lies, HonestReporting's interactive page.
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Even if they were not rockets, they looked like rockets and Israel should not be blamed for acting accordingly.
Posted by: AMR at Jan 4, 2009 8:24:58 PM
Please include actual info to help with the debunking in the article.
Posted by: Curls at Jan 5, 2009 10:17:36 AM
You do not ever load oxygen cylinders sideways. The valve will break off and the oxygen would be gone.
Oxygen cylinders are ALWAYS loaded in the vertical position NEVER in the horizontal position.
Rockets are never loaded in the vertical only the horizontal
Posted by: Loren Griffith at Jan 5, 2009 10:17:36 AM
I don't believe that oxygen would have set off a secondary explosion of that magnitude. Someone should be investigating that angle.
Posted by: Amy at Jan 5, 2009 9:50:08 PM
Loren, you are absolutely correct. However, you are talking about pallies, who like the MSM, don't know the difference between a spent and unfired bullet.
Amy, proof of O2 canisters would have created a massively larger initial explosion with no secondary. Or, would have created numerous secondary explosions with tanks popping off due to the heat.
Posted by: captainfish at Jan 6, 2009 7:02:30 AM
Why would there be a dozen guys standing around to supervise, or provide security for, the loading of a couple of welding tanks onto a truck?
Posted by: defender at Jan 6, 2009 7:02:31 AM
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