From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 14:33:55 MST
>> Has ANYBODY succeeded in getting either stills or video of the POW
>> broadcast aired by the enemy TV network?
In case no one has yet answered this in the affirmative...
I have on my hard-drive the censored Al-Jazeera video footage of both
the POW interviews and the gruesome footage of dead US military personnel,
in .asf format, viewable in Windows Media Player. I'd rather not mention
the source URL... I don't want my name associated in any way with the sick
freaks who run the site in question. Recently the FBI tried to shut
the site down for broadcasting the video footage of Daniel Pearl's
decapitation,
which they purportedly still have in their archives for downloading. No
doubt
the site is again under pressure from the FBI for publishing this war
footage.
I was tipped off to the website by a recent Reuter's news article, so others
here could probably find it if they want to find it.
Otherwise, if anyone here really wants to see these disturbing broadcasts
then
I would be okay with sending them upon request by private email attachment.
Just drop me a note at my email address above. I believe every US citizen
has a constitutional right to view the footage, but I believe also that the
government and the mainstream media are correct that such things
ought not be broadcast unsolicited into every American home.
The POW interviews video is about 5 megs. The executed soldiers footage is
about 7 megs.
My main personal reason for downloading these video clips is that I wanted
to
see with my own eyes whether coalition soldiers were actually shot in the
head
as has been alleged. The answer is yes. The footage makes it abundantly
clear,
with close-ups, that at least one of our own was shot point-blank in the
center
of the forehead. It is disturbing footage and not for the faint of heart. It
serves as a sobering reminder that this war is not some kind of video game
played on cable news networks by retired generals. Any footage that may
emerge
of the deaths of innocent Iraqi citizens will be equally as sobering.
May God bless America if she's in the right, and forgive her if she's not.
-gts
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