Monday, December 20, 2004
Lynn B. points to a Wall Street Journal story (reprinted here, at Backspin, regarding the "Mythical Martyr," Mohammed al-Durra. He was the young Palestinian Arab boy supposedly killed by Israeli troops at the Netzarim Junction four years ago. The images were shown world-wide.
Evidence decisively shows that the incident was a put-up.
A legal clerk for France 2 told Mr. Rosenzweig and his colleagues that they "will be disappointed." "Didn't you know ?" added Didier Epelbaum, an adviser to the president of France Television (the department presiding over all French state-operated TV networks) "that Talal has retracted his testimony?"
No, they did not know. How could they since neither the French channel nor the Palestinian cameraman ever made that public? It is incredible how France 2 so nonchalantly admitted that their star witness, well, their only witness to the alleged killing, retracted his accusations. Without this testimony there is no story, and yet the channel refuses to make any of this public.
The 27 minutes of footage that the three journalists were finally allowed to see didn't contain a single new relevant scene, except for one that showed the child in a different death position from the one shown before. So the child moved after he was presumably dead? The unbearable images of the child's death that Mr. Enderlin rhapsodized about? A mirage, a total invention, worthy of Scheherazade, the storyteller of "The Arabian Nights." ...
For my own report on a film and presentation I saw debunking the event, see here: Truth is Essential - "The Mideast Conflict Through the Eyes of the Media" Report
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Take information of french people organizing themselves to make public the Al dura case in their country.
They make this evolve in France day after day.
English web site: www.truthnow.org
French web site: www.laveritemaintenant.org (more complete)