Re: Hiroshima

Bill,

The film was not a hoax, but was shot by Reuter's on 9/11. This rumor and others are discussed and debunked at <http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm>

I choose to believe that the celebrating Palestinians were acting in a knee-jerk manner as they do to any report of bad things happenings in the US or Israel, and that they did not at the time understand what really had happened. I try to keep in mind that what these people hear and see from their leaders and the media is tightly controlled.

Gerry

At 10:25 AM 9/22/01 -0400, you wrote:
There is a story going around now, and I don't know if it is true, that the film of the Palestinians celebrating after the attack on the WTC was a hoax. Specifically that it was stock footage from 1991 of them celebrating something else that someone "mistakenly" used. Word was that somebody thought it looked familiar and started checking on where it came from. Arafat's reaction seems to show that the Palestinians are clearly saying they are not supporting those people. size=2>
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