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Friday, August 11, 2006

AP Goes On Defense For Hezbollah Propagandist

For those of you following the stories/blog postings about the apparently staged anti-Israeli photos coming out of Lebanon are probably familiar with the "green helmet guy." Yesterday I posted video of Mr. Green Helmet (real name: Salam Daher) clearly directing a staged photo-op, yet despite the fact that this guy is clearly a propagandist the Associated Press has decided to act in his defense with this article:

TYRE, Lebanon - After hours of digging in the blistering heat, Salam Daher emerged from the wreckage with the body of a 9-month-old baby, a blue pacifier still pinned to its nightshirt.

He held the infant up and, click, an Associated Press photographer snapped another picture of Daher, in his trademark green helmet, displaying a civilian victim of Israeli bombs for the world to see.

Daher, a member of the civil defense for 20 years, has been photographed with bodies of the dead in two wars now — first in 1996 and most recently with the baby on July 30 __ both times after Israeli attacks in the village of Qana six miles southeast of the city.

For that reason, some Web sites have labeled him the "Green Helmet," and accused him of being a member of the Hezbollah guerrilla group, and of showing off bodies as propaganda.

"But that isn't true," he told The Associated Press. He is not affiliated with any party, he said. "I am just a civil defense worker. I have done this job all my life."


Hours of digging in the blistering heat, eh? Well let's take a look at what Mr. Daher looked like after those long hours of digging through dusty rubble:

AP Qana 03.jpg


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Reuters Qana 02.jpg


Look at his clothes. Does that look like a man who has been digging through the dusty rubble of a collapsed building for "hours?" Sure doesn't look like it to me.

This guy's a fraud, and media organizations like the Associated Press are complicit in perpetuating his fraud and disseminating his pro-Hezbollah propaganda.

The media prides itself on, according to them, wading through layers baloney to get to the truth of a matter. Journalists routinely use leaked government secrets and skeptical reporting to dig deep into what our political leaders are doing. Sometimes that's justified, sometimes it isn't, but either way the techniques journalists apply to the President of the United States, for instance, stand in stark contrast to the way they treat an alleged "civil defense worker" who is accused based on some pretty good evidence of being a propagandist for terrorists.

Green helmet feeds the Associated Press a story, and they're all too happy to swallow it (while admonishing his critics) no questions asked.

Comments

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Looks like the green helmet guy washed the pacifier for the photo op. Those little chain pacifier anchors are very weak and it still held up to being crushed under rubble.  Doesn’t the man standing to the right of the green helmet guy look familiar?  Is he the white t-shirt guy from the other shots?  Where are the screaming and frantic mothers?  I know that if it were my missing child, I would be digging until my fingers bled.

Dianne on August 11, 2006 at 10:13 pm
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He and the pacifier are clean, and that childs body is rigid and un-crushed. Just whose child was that and why was he killed? Perhaps to punish the parents for disloyalty to Hizbullah. And did greenhelmet strangle the child in front of the parents, or did he give that singular priviledge to one of his troops?

2Hotel9 on August 12, 2006 at 04:14 am
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2Hotel9 is right. I didn’t notice the pacifier before. What’s amazing is Hezbo;;ah may be murdering children, and our MSM is so concerned with partisanship they ignore atruly monumantel story. Thank God for blogs.

Eno on August 12, 2006 at 05:58 am
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It is quite obvious that it was staged.  Being a Mom to an infant, the first thing that stood out was the way the clean pacifer stood out in stark contrast to the child’s dusty body and the way the child’s dusty body stood out in stark contrast to the clean “green helmet guy”, who’d been “digging” in the rubble.

Tracey on August 12, 2006 at 09:07 am
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I’m taking it at face value. I don’t want to give additional fodder to the likes of Lynn Samuels and Kevin Barrett (&Charlie Sheen) who all believe that 9/11 and yesterday’s foiled plot were both “staged” events.
It doesn’t really matter whether Hezbollah staged it or not. It doesn’t change the “war” one iota. It’s not as if there are “undecided minds” in this epoch battle betwen civilization and barbarism.
Those who have already been fooled into believing that a “peaceful religion” has been hijacked will continue to believe it.
Others know that it’s Islam itself that is the hijacker. It highjacks human beings and turns them into brutal murdering animals.

Awakened Warrior on August 12, 2006 at 09:30 am
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aNONOMISLY on August 12, 2006 at 10:10 am
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Hey look at that pacifier, don’t look at the dead kid.  What a bunch of morons.  I am so glad Hezbollah kicked Israels ass the whole way.  Lebanon will never be invaded again.  Israel just got the whuppin of their life!

Jason on August 12, 2006 at 04:44 pm
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Grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls,
the courage to debate with honest opponents,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Tracey on August 12, 2006 at 06:20 pm
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Jason: Down the rabbithole again, I see.

robert108 on August 12, 2006 at 06:21 pm
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Jason
You Understand Nothing!!
Stop being such a little punk!

It’s interesting to note that empty-headed people like you, who have nothing to say-ever- always resort to the kind of bullshit you heretofore have demonstrated with your laughable and preposterous prattle. Perhaps you’re still young and dumb and struggling to make it through remedial freshman classes in a local community college. Sure sounds like it! You’ve shown yourself to be categorically inarticulate and befuddled. Keeping in mind the possibility that you are just an inexperienced adolescent , I think we should cut you a little slack and try to be a bit more compassionate-in the same manner one would treat a sick relative. It’s only through “intervention” of this nature that you can be helped.

I’m not sure what part of “Death to America” you don’t understand.  Maybe you think that it’s some of kind of cute but meaningless phrase, like the ones they chant.  But when supporters of Hezbollah chant “Death to America,” they mean, literally, death to Americans.  Their propensity to bring death to civilian targets is well known, and well documented, so I’m not sure how stupid (inexperienced) one would have to be to think that the chants are just something done to get the attention of the world press in order to move on to some other, real, complaint.  Hezbollah, given the chance, would kill every man, woman, and child in America.  Be they Christian, Jew, or Lefty.  Every. Single. One. Of. Us. As violently as possible.

So how morally depraved does one have to be to openly support a group of terrorists that would turn around and behead you on video; but only after they had made you watch as they slaughtered your children?  You have to be irreversibly depraved.  Kofi Anan kind of depraved.  Cindy Sheehan kind of depraved.  Firedoglake kind of depraved.  Krazy Kos Kids kind of depraved. 

If it’s not depravity, maybe it’s stupidity.  Either way, it’s dangerous to you and me.

AW

Awakened Warrior on August 13, 2006 at 02:39 am
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Thanks AW, you saved me the time and effort of wiping that turd off of our collective shoe. Good job!

2Hotel9 on August 13, 2006 at 03:54 am
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The pacifier is certainly clean and looks new...probably a prop added to tug at the heartstrings of the West, like the number of clean Disney toys the photogs seem to find abandoned in the streets, in perfect condition among the dusty rubble.

Proofreader emeritus on August 13, 2006 at 04:06 am
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I look for a substantial change in photos coming out of Hizbullahstan in the next couple of days. Islamofacist cells are becoming quite good at morphing according to what is being said about them. Perhaps as early as today.

2Hotel9 on August 13, 2006 at 04:32 am
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if you look closely at the pacifier it does not have a grain of dust. It is completely clean.
This clearly shoes that the pacifier was placed in the victims body after the her death.

copy and paste the link bellow in order to see a picture i did

http://thumbsnap.com/v/jqWYlT5l.jpg

it would be interestin to try to recreate the wholle events with a doll. Cover it with dust and pacifier to seehow the pacifier would look like

peter42y on August 13, 2006 at 05:26 am
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Awakened Warrior I know you like to punctuate your remarks with verbose verbage to lift your own internet ego, but you are out classed here.  As for hitting civilian targets, Nassrallah has condemned it.  He also does not get along with Al-Qaeda, as much as Al-Qaeda wishes to support him.  He condemned 9/11 and condemned the beheadings in Iraq.  I know in your own simple minded way you would love to lump all those “towel heads” together, but it just reveals your ignorance and racist backbone. You just throw around propoganda with out any support.  I know Hannety and Oreilly love this level of unsupported garbage, the likes of which you spread like a virus all over the internet, but I am not going to leave it uncontested.  The fact remains as much as you block heads would love to look at that pacifier, the child is still dead, and as much as you would like to discount death in favor of poo slinging, it doesn’t change the fact Israel killed babies.  So you go on your rants and nonsense with your bald eagle avatar, waving around your patriotism, which is not really such, but a much uglier nationalism, and don’t pay attention to the truth.  The truth is too ugly.  The truth is too real.  Christ is not cool with you people.  Actually Christ left you people along time ago.  Your humanity has left you.  Best of luck with the dellusional world you have created for yourself.  Best thing you can do for that, is don’t look at the dead babies.  The dead babies are too real, focus on the smoke and green helmet guy, you can sleep with that.  Your condition is sad beyond words because Americans have completely left the rational world and opted for a recreation, that is dangerous to humankind as a whole.
The fact remains Hezbollah has succesfully defended its borders, with a high cost to the IDF.  This has changed the dynamics of politics in the area.  With Syria on the border, you can expect the same level of guerilla preparedness on their border.  Possibly Egypt as well.  You also have a demoralized IDF, that is no longer the strongest force in the Middle East.  Nassrallah is also now a political force, he has not only united Druze, Christians and Sunnis in Lebanon behind him, he has also begun to unite Shia and Sunni.  The whole game has changed, and the future of the Middle East and America’s involvement in it has completely been revamped.  All for the better though.  As much as you want to create this propoganda machine behind you and recruit Americans support, the political world outlook is turning against us.  We have lost all credibility in the world.  The US could have bartered a cease fire, but they wanted to defeat Hezbollah.  They failed at the cost of 1000s of lives.  So the US has achieved none of its goals by holding out on the cease fire, outside of humiliating the IDF, killing 1000s and supporting Nassarallah.  This just shows negotiations, a policy the Bush administration has rejected, is preferable to armed conflict.  chicken hawks are getting humiliated left and right, when will you guys just learn to shut up.  You just keep putting your foots in your mouths.  You probably still think Iraq has WMDs.  So so so so sad.

Jason on August 13, 2006 at 10:13 am
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That was real good jason! Did your Mom help you write it?
BTW- “verbose verbage” is a redundant term. But I expect you won’t learn about that until you’re in college.
AW

Awakened Warrior on August 13, 2006 at 10:27 am
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The fact remains Hezbollah has succesfully defended its borders, with a high cost to the IDF.

Jason,

When did Hezbollah become a country??  I must have missed that in World Geography . . .

Tracey on August 13, 2006 at 10:32 am
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Christ is not cool with you people. Actually Christ left you people along time ago. Your humanity has left you. Best of luck with the dellusional world you have created for yourself.

Can you just imagine how powerful it is to “know” the mind of Christ.

You know as little about the bible as you do about everything else! Here’s another “lesson” for you. Soon I’m going to have to start charging you for all this tutoring. What’s your Mom’s address? I’ll send her the bill.

Matthew
Chapter 11

15 “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
16 and I will give you rest.

17 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”

Matthew
Chapter 28
20 “And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

Awakened Warrior on August 13, 2006 at 11:19 am
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This jason clown sounds like my bitchy ex-wife. I never could win an argument with her even if I was in the right. She would never concede a point-even when she was dead wrong. In fact the more wrong she was, the more arrogant and vicious she became when challenged.
She ended up running off with my best friend; I sure am going to miss him!

Bezu Fache on August 13, 2006 at 12:33 pm
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jason? A word of advice, just to help you, back off the meth and cheap beer. it is rotting your brain. What little you had to begin with.

2Hotel9 on August 13, 2006 at 03:13 pm
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Jason makes up his own reality, I know in your own simple minded way you would love to lump all those “towel heads” together, but it just reveals your ignorance and racist backbone.

Who said “towel heads” here besides you?

You just throw around propoganda with out any support. I know Hannety and Oreilly love this level of unsupported garbage...

So you’re saying that “unsupported garbage” is multiple instances of documented staged Hezbollah propaganda. “Propaganda”, to you, is pointing out someone else’s real propaganda.

The fact remains as much as you block heads would love to look at that pacifier, the child is still dead, and as much as you would like to discount death in favor of poo slinging, it doesn’t change the fact Israel killed babies.

The block head here is you. Nobody is denying that innocents are getting killed. What people here are outraged about is the staging of dead bodies and the shameful desecration of the remains to fool willing dupes like you. THEY’RE STAGING IT! It’s fake news and that is the subject here.

So you go on your rants and nonsense with your bald eagle avatar, waving around your patriotism, which is not really such, but a much uglier nationalism, and don’t pay attention to the truth. The truth is too ugly. The truth is too real.

What’s the truth? These people are staging events. That’s called lying Jason.

Christ is not cool with you people. Actually Christ left you people along time ago.

You like speaking for people who died nearly 2000 years ago?

Your humanity has left you. Best of luck with the dellusional world you have created for yourself. Best thing you can do for that, is don’t look at the dead babies. The dead babies are too real, focus on the smoke and green helmet guy, you can sleep with that.

Nobody disputes that there is a dead baby up there bozo. What is in dispute is how that baby died. Right now we have a bunch of liars staging events and manipulating the dead for emotional impact. I, for one, don’t trust their story. They’re liars. That you dance around that issue while assigning blame and insults is telling.

Your condition is sad beyond words because Americans have completely left the rational world and opted for a recreation, that is dangerous to humankind as a whole.

Yeah, whatever that means in your upside down world. It’s funny to me that you speak of “the rational world” while defending a clear-cut case of lying. But whatever.

The fact remains Hezbollah has succesfully defended its borders, with a high cost to the IDF.

That’s because they ended up listening to types like you. They “negotiated”. And now we’ll watch as the problem lingers and festers.

You also have a demoralized IDF, that is no longer the strongest force in the Middle East.

I haven’t seen reports of a demoralized IDF. Maybe that’s just a part of your made-up reality. How do you figure that they no longer have the strongest force?

Nassrallah is also now a political force, he has not only united Druze, Christians and Sunnis in Lebanon behind him, he has also begun to unite Shia and Sunni. The whole game has changed, and the future of the Middle East and America’s involvement in it has completely been revamped. All for the better though.

You’re sitting there and telling us that more people supporting a terrorist organization is “all for the better”? You’re sick Jason.

As much as you want to create this propoganda machine behind you and recruit Americans support...

That’s a sad case of projection. We’re talking about their staged propaganda Jason. Please focus.

...the political world outlook is turning against us.

When was the “political world outlook” ever with us?

The US could have bartered a cease fire, but they wanted to defeat Hezbollah.

It seems you don’t pay much attention to history Jason, because if you did, you’d notice that a “cease fire” has never worked with these people.

This just shows negotiations, a policy the Bush administration has rejected, is preferable to armed conflict.

Once again you pay little attention to history and once again you fail to notice that a cease fire doesn’t work with these people. Negotiations only work when both sides are willing to come to the table and agree on certain things; namely that both sides have a right to existence. You’re not going to get that kind of agreement out of a group that wants all Jews dead.

chicken hawks are getting humiliated left and right, when will you guys just learn to shut up. You just keep putting your foots in your mouths. You probably still think Iraq has WMDs. So so so so sad.

Chamberlain had it right. We had “peace for our time” after he signed that piece of paper with Hitler. All Hitler wanted was a little bit of land and he promised that there would be no war. Chamberlain single-handedly prevented a war with Germany.

Wait a minute! That didn’t happen. Instead we got this. We could have defeated the clear threat before he built up his war machine, but instead the West listened to self-righteous insulting gas-bags like you. The clueless gas-bags were then surprised when the evil man started acting evil and did the things he proclaimed that he was going to do. It’s ironic that the same rhetoric was used by Hitler that is now used by Hezbollah.

You can get off of your high horse now Jason. You have been thoroughly debunked. And I didn’t have to question your supposed patriotism, slander un-related third parties, invent up any reality, or put words in a dead guy’s mouth.

Now please. Focus on the issues presented. Once again, this is about how Hezbollah is fooling willing dupes into buying their propaganda. This is a group that is known for setting up shop right next to a school and sending little kids out with bombs. Now who’s the bad guy in all of this?

likwidshoe on August 16, 2006 at 10:02 pm
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jason, let me apply the coup de grace. All those civilians would still be alive had Hizbullah not built their military facilities in the middle of population center, and had Hizbullah allowed civilians to flee those population centers once the fire began to fly, instead of using them as human shields. End of story. Period.

2Hotel9 on August 17, 2006 at 04:23 am
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2H9 ...you forgot to say “FACT!”

Proofreader emeritus on August 17, 2006 at 05:34 am
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Naw, Pe, then I would feel like Mike Savage! All slimy and white-supremicist dirty. I prefer to remain regular, or occasionally crispy. Just depends on how the day has went.

2Hotel9 on August 17, 2006 at 03:02 pm
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Death to the white hicks that sit in their chairs untouched by the reality of war. May it one day come to your homes and destroy your lives and families.

asspilonker on August 22, 2006 at 01:19 pm
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asspilonker

May it one day come to your homes and destroy your lives and families.

I’ll make sure to find you first.

Bezu Fache on August 23, 2006 at 12:18 am
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Would those be Dixie Hicks, by any chance?

Proofreader emeritus on August 23, 2006 at 03:25 am
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Bring your A game, assboy.

2Hotel9 on August 23, 2006 at 03:35 am
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