sent to me by a palestinian friend of mine. RB >---------- >from Indy Media: >"Celebrating Palestinians": Scene WAS ACTUALLY staged (english) >by Juergen 3:02am Tue Sep 25 '01 (Modified on 3:54am Tue Sep 25 '01) > >"A few days ago a Brazilian student, Marcio, claimed CNN was showing old >scenes of celebrating Palestinians, claiming they were celebrating the >WTC disaster. Well, the scenes were not old, but were manipulated! > >"In a recent statement CNN insisted that the famous footage was shot on >the day of the WTC blast. Meanwhile, German reporters of the prestigious >"Panorama" TV magazine investigated how the scenes were shot. What they >found out was amazing. On German TV they aired, supposedly for the first >time, parts of the entire 4-minute footage not previously shown. > >"It became clear that a person was animating a couple of children to >cheer in front of the camera. The woman cheering was offered a candy to act >cheerful. She later said she was shocked that her pictures were shown in >the context of the terrorist attacks. She had no idea what they were for. A >total view of the scene shows a street largely full of at best apathic >people doing business as usual. Only a handful of people standing in >front of the camera are celebrating. > >"You can see the video online on >http://www.ndrtv.de/panorama/sendung/index.html The link is below the >second picture and in German. But you can still see the pictures in the >report. Forward to 7 minutes 45 seconds and watch it until the end. > >"Furthermore, the highly regarded German magazine "Der Spiegel" has had >an article on this. The article shows the picture of the woman getting >candy and another one people showing more people in the background of the >cheering kids. These people are passing by as usual. > >"Read the article on: >http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html >Unfortunately, in German as well. You can still see the pictures, >though." > >Here's a little synapses of the article in Der Spiegel (titled "What is >the truth?"): > >Der Spiegel reports on the analysis conducted by Panorama. They point >out that the pictures that went around the world only showed close-ups, >never the whole street full of people celebrating. What Panorama found out, >when watching the whole thing, was that there were shots of the street >surrounding the cheering groups. These shots indicated that there were >only a handful of people cheering while the majority of people passed by >without participating (the second picture in the Spiegel article shows >that). >
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