-Caveat Lector- William Shannon wrote: > > http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1c.html > > CNN using 1991 footage of Palestinians > celebrating the invasion of Kuwait Not true Billy. This is Palestinian damage control. There are reporters from all over the world who witnessed it. They had their footage and cameras confiscated and were threatened with arrest or worse if they dared send the pictures to their news organizations. C'mon Billy. Be a man. Your Pals are glad that all those people died. After all we've seen this behavior before. But when it was happening to Jews you really didn't give a fuck. J2 * * * Dear HonestReporting Member, The crime against humanity this week was horrifying. Only a sick tyrant like Saddam Hussein could rejoice in the carnage. Or so we thought. Palestinians in Beirut, Nablus and eastern Jerusalem rejoiced, danced and handed out candies. But that�s only part of the story. Palestinian groups, including the Arafat-backed Tanzim and the Palestinian police, then used intimidation and violence to prevent journalists from distributing the photos and videos of these celebrations. One cameraman, on assignment for Associated Press Television News, was kidnapped and threatened with death if his footage was aired. Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Arafat's Cabinet secretary, said the Palestinian Authority "cannot guarantee the life" of the cameraman if the footage was broadcast. http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/09/13/News/News.34751.html See also: http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010912/us/ attacks_ap_protest_1.html The Jerusalem Post also reports that armed Palestinians trapped foreign photojournalists inside a Nablus hotel on September 11 while thousands took the the streets in celebration of the U.S. terror attacks. The journalists were reportedly forced to remain confined in the hotel, guarded by armed Palestinians -- both in uniform and wearing civilian clothes -- while the festivities continued in the streets. http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/09/12/LatestNews/LatestNews.34700.html According to Israeli Radio correspondent Danny Zaken, at least two news organizations had footage of the celebrations in Nablus and Ramallah that showed Palestinian policemen shooting joyfully in the air. Zaken reported that the news agencies refused to broadcast the material after senior officials in the Palestinian Authority contacted the heads of the news organizations, threatening the lives of news personnel and warning an end of access to PA sources if they broadcast the reports. Obviously, since these images portray Palestinian affinity with the fervently anti- American tactics of the WTC terrorists, they greatly damage the Palestinian cause in the eyes of the world. Asked for his reaction to the pictures of celebrating Palestinians, Secretary of State Colin Powell told Fox News, "It is a searing image in my mind." A strong statement was issued by the Foreign Press Association (FPA), which represents hundreds of mainstream journalists in Israel. The head of the FPA, Dan Perry, who is also the bureau chief of the Associated Press in Israel, issued this statement: "The FPA expresses deep concern over the harassment of journalists by the Palestinian Authority as police forces and armed gunmen tried to prevent photo and video coverage of Tuesday's rally in Nablus where hundreds of Palestinians celebrated the terror attacks in N.Y. and Washington. We strongly condemn the direct threats made against local videographers by local militia members and the attitude of Palestinian officials who made no effort to counter the threats, control the situation, or to guarantee the safety of the journalists and the freedom of the press. "We call on the PA to ensure freedom of the press and the free flow of information and to prevent elements operating within PA jurisdiction from making or carrying out threats that aim to impede this and effectively impose censorship. We hold the PA fully responsible for the safety of each and every journalist operating within their areas, especially those who were filming and covering Tuesday's events in Nablus." Did your TV station and newspaper show the despicable scenes of Palestinian celebration? Or did they succumb to intimidation? We encourage you to contact local editors and producers, and demand that they show the videos and publish the photographs. A full list of U.S. newspapers is online at: http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Newspapers+U.S.+list A list of major media contacts is online at: http://www.honestreporting.com/a/contact.asp ========= "Al-Ayyam" declared that the Palestinian Authority has stepped up depictions of President Bush as a murderer, accompanied by increasing publicity for calls to attack the U.S. The paper encouraged Palestinians to "harm American interests in the Arab world, with all possible means, in all places, at all levels, because the United States does not understand the language of logic and wisdom, but only the language of interests and force." ("Al-Ayyam" - Aug. 30, 2001) ============================ SEE THE CELEBRATIONS ONLINE Visit the following links for more documentation of Palestinian celebrations. (Since many URL's do not fit onto one line of this e-mail, you will need to paste the parts into your browser, and remove any spaces that appear in the URL.) Reuters - http://us.news2.yimg.com/f/42/31/7m/dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010911/wl /crash_tradecenter_palestinians_dc_2.html BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_ 1538000/1538861.stm Beirut Daily Star - http://www.dailystar.com.lb/12_09_01/art31.htm Boston Globe - http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/255/nation/Leaders_deplore_but_ people_rejoice+.shtml Chicago Tribune - http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-010911world.story Salon.com - "Rejoicing in the streets of Jenin" http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/11/west_bank/index.html "Palestinian Joy -- Global Condemnation": "Palestinian gunmen at refugee camps in Lebanon fired into the air in celebration yesterday as the rest of the world united in revulsion at the �monstrous� and �abhorrent� attacks in the US. In East Jerusalem, people distributed sweets wrapped in the colours of the Palestinian tricolour and sounded car horns.� http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,550498,00.html > > Brazil > > By M�rcio A. V. Carvalho > > All around the world we are subjected to 3 or 4 huge news distributors, and > one of them - as you well know - is CNN. Very well, I guess all of you have > been seeing (just as I've been) images from this company. In particular, one > set of images called my attention: the Palestinians celebrating the bombing, > out on the streets, eating some cake and making funny faces for the camera. > > Well, those images were shot back in 1991. Those are images of Palestinians > celebrating the invasion of Kuwait! It's simply unacceptable that a > super-power of communications as CNN uses images which do not correspond to > the reality in talking about so serious an issue. > > A teacher of mine, here in Brazil, has videotapes recorded in 1991, with the > very same images; he's been sending e-mails to CNN, Globo (the major TV > network in Brazil) and newspapers, denouncing what I myself classify as a > crime against the public opinion. > > But now, think for a moment about the impact of such images. Your people are > hurt, emotionally fragile, and this kind broadcast have very high possibility > of causing waves of anger and rage against Palestinians. It's simply > irresponsible to show images such as those. > > Finally, I'd like to say that we all regret and condemn all that has happened > in the last days; but Nikos has a point here. I really don't want to be > misunderstood here, but the truth is that US government had shown no respect > for other countries in the last decades. > > In the 60s and 70s they had halped lots of military coups throughout the world > (including Brazil in 64). Later, with Reagan and Bush Father, the Washington > Consensus have been demolishing the bases of our economies, making us more and > more dependant (and, many of us, preoccupied with this situation). > > Your current president quickly made things worse: Kioto Protocol, Star Wars, > Colombia Plan, the exchange of rain forest for pieces of external debt, tha > abandonment of the position of third party in negotiations between IRA and > England, and between Palestinians and Israel. All those mistakes in US > external politics made your country more hatred than before, and, of course, > more vulnerable. > > Listen, I'm NOT justifying the terrorist actions that took place in your > country; but it seems to me that, if your leaders had come along another path > of thoughts and actions, you wouldn't be suffering what you are now. > > Best regards, and the hope that everything is resolved for the best of all of > us. > > M�rcio A. V. Carvalho > > State University of Campinas - Brazil <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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