Questions Surround Haifa Street Video
(AP)
What I'm interested in is the footage of dead Iraqi soldiers that Lara Logan claims was "obtained by CBS." But this footage was first released by Al-Qaeda!I asked CBS News Vice President Paul Friedman about the video.
Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq released 8 minutes of cell phone footage through its media arm, the Al-Furqan Institute for Media Productions, under the title 'Some of the Casualties of the Heretics in Haifa Street After Sunday's Fighting, January 7, 2007, in Baghdad.' The grainy images were of six or seven bodies wearing Iraqi military fatigues with 'carry-out' lunch boxes strewn about them. The images were probably taken by a cell phone, judging by quality. In one scene, a close up is shown of a soldier shot through the head, probably executed.
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The footage "obtained by CBS" is identical to that put out by Al-Qaeda. But Logan makes no mention of Al-Qaeda's video and does not address the implication that the footage she used was off an Al-Qaeda video. And if it's not off the Al-Qaeda video, then how did she get footage identical to the one used by Al-Qaeda? This needs to be explained.
"I can assure you this was not from Al-Qaeda," said Friedman, who declined to identify the source. "Whenever we can identify the source of information or video, we want to do that," he added. "There are some rare cases when we have to protect the source. In this case, we needed to do so, because it's literally a matter of life and death."
"The fact that same video shows up in more than one place is something that happens every day," said CBS News spokeswoman Sandra Genelius. "We occasionally use video from an Al-Qaeda Web site and we identify it. In this case, we didn't get it from Al-Qaeda, so we didn't identify it as such."
Didn't they learn anything from Jamil-gate?
The fact is, Logan's tape is a camera master or a dub of a camera master. a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/01/31/lara-logan-and-her-terrorist-footage-it-is-too-important-to-ignore/" The evidence for and implications of that are here /a . This needs to be explained, and "We can assure you" won't cut it after Rathergate.
CBS + Laura Logan = Al-Queda Propaganda
Remember, CBS, if you harbor or support terrorists, our military is coming after you - and rightfully so!
What does Bush, Cheney or Michelle Malkin have anything to do with this? Nothing! And your contemptuousness is irrelevant.
But the issue is, can the MSM and people like LL accept the new scrutiny they find themselves under? People like me now have a voice - right here, right now.
No longer am I required to accept what the media force feeds me. I doubt things about the Government AND I doubt more things about the MSM.
And in this propaganda war, I would hope that my small comment here might help an Iraqi child to grow up in peace, safety and happiness just like you did.
No one wants to discuss an ersatz controversy manufactured out of whole cloth to prod CBS to do a Dan Rather on Lara Logan. It's not going to happen, except inside the Bush bubble.
Lara is embedded with US troops - not al-Qaeda - and has been for several years. Her reporting, I believe, has educated Americans about the unvarnished, harsh reality on the ground while giving a voice to foot soldiers, impacting public opinion. (Note that her attackers - Brian and Michelle - are safely stateside as Bush and Chaney were during the Vietnam war). The people aren't falling for your attempts to smear Lara as an al-Qaeda sympathizer. You have only, and rightly so, earned the people's contempt.
Maybe we should talk about how Kerry, Pelosi and Clinton met with Maliki in Baghdad, while commander-in-chief Bush met with him in Jordan? Bush was missing in action in Vietnam and went into hiding during 9-11. Let's talk about that, too.
And, we'd like to hear about your experiences in Iraq.