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Quote by: PatrickHenry Do you think the tape's a fake? |
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/st...ectID=10386858
World News
Haditha defence questions key video, Iraqi group
1.00pm Friday June 16, 2006
By Dan Whitcomb
Is the tape a fake? I do not know. It appears obvious that questions need to be answered concerning the falsely reported link to Human rights watch, and the videographer's ties to insurgent prisoners.
But an even greater question arises when considering when and and even where the video was shot. As the video apparently does not include any footage of American soldiers shooting kneeling civilians, we have to question not necessarily its content, but the meaning of that content.
If bodies were in certain positions, when did they assume those positions? Is it unreasonable to assume that if someone wanted to make it look like a scene of a massacre, the bodies may have been moved?
Clearly, this "evidence" must be examined and verified before it be accepted carte blanche as fact.
As clearly, I am of the opinion that the soldiers, as the accused, must be given the benefit of the doubt. Indeed, it is my fervent wish that the evidence exonerate them.
Could a vindictive, retaliatory rampage have occurred? Of course!
Could conditions have been created to bring about this event through planning on the part of the enemy? Of course. By attacking from within a crowd of civilians while dressed as civilians, fire could be drawn to bring about civilian casualties.
Could the videotape be a fraud? Could the bodies have been moved, shell casings planted, testimony faked, all to create the image of a masssacre? Of course.
At this point, I don't know what happened. Court is still in session, if you will