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Dam Bursts at Al Dura Trial
2007-09-21
Long and good piece from PJM about the faked Al Dura footage currently held by France 2. The story provides enough background for you to check it out if you haven't been following the story. Just the teaser here:
PJM Paris: Many have accused the photo of young Mohammed Al DuraÂ’s father shielding him from Israeli bullets of being a fake, but the original videotape from which this photo was drawn was hidden from view by France 2. Yesterday a French judge finally ordered the channel to produce it. PJMÂ’s Nidra Poller was one of the few journalists witnessing this stunning turning point.
AoS at 1045 CDT: link fixed. Sorry!
Posted by:Steve White

#9  This is but one small part of what needs to be a concerted international effort to expose and dismantle the Islamic propaganda machine. Ahmed Abu Laban's purposeful inclusion of inflammatory images wholly unrelated to cartoons published by Jyllands Posten went almost entirely unreported despite the central role they played in escalating falsely incited Muslim outrage.

The routine distortions and outright lies utilized by Islamic media outlets makes our own traitorous mainstream media wankers look like a troop of boy scouts. One need look no further than Iran to understand the immense importance of contrived stories and agitating rhetoric. Ahmadinejad's albeit waning popularity is sustained almost entirely by such blatant manipulation.

Both Israel and especially America have demonstrated a fundamental lack of awareness regarding the damage done by not deconstructing Islamic propaganda. Kitman and taqiyya predominate amongst the tools used by Muslims to falsely portray themselves as victims. The Soviet Union's use of disinformation and slanted reporting long ago should have taught the West whatever lessons were needed.

Instead, we continue to allow Islamic treachery and deceit to bias world opinion against Western culture. However gullible American liberals might be, the fact remains that their unwholesome regard for Islam is driven in part by a near total lack of counterattack upon the lies they are fed. Republicans demonstrate a stunning degree of naiveté in their flaccid response to these otherwise persuasive tools. Particularly so in light of how easy such a task is of exposing the baldfaced lies and flagrant mistruths being bandied about as accepted fact.

A republican victory in 2009 is almost entirely dependent upon overcoming their own needless reluctance to begin challenging these media-borne assaults upon fact based public opinion. Hillary Clinton's incredibly flawed and borderline communist agenda needs to be crushed beneath an avalanche of well-reasoned refutation and logical alternatives. The same goes for Islamic propaganda as both of them serve an equally anti-American platform.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-21 15:57  

#8  It'd be OK with me if the FBI went over there to help them find it.
Posted by: gorb   2007-09-21 14:20  

#7  In the U.S. wouldn't the police or the FBI help them find it?
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-09-21 12:42  

#6  What are the odds on whether France 2 produces the tape?
Posted by: danking70   2007-09-21 11:02  

#5  Have a seat, Charles---anything to drink?
Posted by: Dan Rather   2007-09-21 10:37  

#4  And we all know Dreyfus was innocent, but what else did that change?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-09-21 06:46  

#3  Let's see if the ecole mafia manage to hold out or if they really let go of the unedited footage. Proving and publicizing the al Dura deceipt could be the most important result of Sarko's election, if it happens.
Posted by: lotp   2007-09-21 06:23  

#2  Here's the pajamasmedia link.
Posted by: gorb   2007-09-21 03:35  

#1  link bad
Posted by: 3dc   2007-09-21 01:45  

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