Anti-US ‘attack’ videos online
p2pnet.net News:- Videos showing attacks against US troops in Iraq are on sale in Baghdad shops and available on Jihad web pages, but they’re now also showing up on sites such as YouTube and Google Video, says The New York Times.
What’s more, “Many of the videos, showing sniper attacks against Americans and roadside bombs exploding under American military vehicles, have been posted not by insurgents or their official supporters but apparently by Internet users in the United States and other countries, who have passed along videos found elsewhere,” says the story.
They’re also resulting in online censorship.
Since the NYT started showng an interest, YouTube has removed dozens of the videos from its archives and suspended the accounts of some users, it says.
“But many others remain, some labeled in Arabic, making them difficult for American users to search for,” says the story. “In addition, new videos, often with the same material that had been deleted elsewhere, are added daily.”
Vietnam vet Russell K. Terry, who founded the Iraq War Veterans Organization, says, “It’s unfortunate there’s no way to stop it,” even though, “this is what these guys are over there fighting for: freedom of speech.”
The NYT also has United States Central Command spokesman Major Matt McLaughlin saying, “Centcom is aware we are facing an adaptive enemy that uses the Internet as a force multiplier and as a means of connectivity.”
Meanwhile, YouTube’s senior director of marketing, Julie Supan, says the company removed videos after they were flagged by users as having inappropriate content and were reviewed by the video service, adds the NYT.
The caption to the pic says, “Sniper dedicates 9 bullets to Bush”.
Also See:
The New York Time – Anti-U.S. Attack Videos Spread on Web, October 6, 2006
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October 7th, 2006 at 10:09 am
if they remove the vids that show attacks against US then they should remove the vids that show attacks against Iraq or Palestinians or…,
correct?
October 8th, 2006 at 5:36 am
Quite correct.
Videos showing US troops being attacked == enemy propaganda
Videos showing Iraqi/Palestinian civilians die == bad PR^h^h^h^h enemy propaganda.
Youtube – fair and balanced