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2006-05-08 Iraq

Links to the killing of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat

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Posted by Steve White 2006-05-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 May she have found a Paradise worthy of her death and her life.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-08 12:41|| 2006-05-08 12:41|| Front Page Top

#2 As someone posted (here or elsewhere): Michael Moore's Minutemen at their best.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-05-08 13:53|| 2006-05-08 13:53|| Front Page Top

#3 http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/175675.php

"A gruesome beheading video delivered to the Sunday Times purporting to be of slain journalist Atwar Bahjat is a hoax. On Sunday, May 7th, the Times reported that they had received a low-quality video of Atwar Bahjat being slowly beheaded. That video is now being circulated on the internet as the "Atwar Bahjat" beheading video.

"The Jawa Report can reveal that the Times and Halal Jabar, the author of the article, are victims of a hoax. The video actually shows the gruesome murder of a Nepalese man by the Army of Ansar al-Sunna in Iraq from August of 2004. The man was one of 12 victims executed by the terrorist organization--the other 11 were shot (original story, video, and images of 12 Nepalese murdered in Iraq here).

The Times describes the Nepalese murder video precisely. However, the video delivered to the Times was actually a low-quality version of a much higher quality film originally made by Ansar al-Sunnah. The Times video also is edited to exclude the murder of the other 11 hostages.....

Soon afterward, jihadi forums began to circulate the phony video. Thanks to Baf Baf for much of the legwork in helping figure out which video the hoax had been made from.

"The Times reported that the film was delivered to them by Sunni insurgents and said that it had been found on the mobile phone of a dead Shia militant. The article erroneously tries to blame Bahjat's murder on Shia militias, and uses the false video as evidence of growing civil strife in Iraq.

"The video, in fact, actually shows an "infidel" being murdered by a Sunni Salaafist terrorist organization with ties to al Qaeda...

Posted by john">john 2006-05-08 21:29|| 2006-05-08 21:29|| Front Page Top

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