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August 15, 2006
Does the AP Owe Green Helmet Money?
Fool! I am write-protected!
I am at a loss to explain why Kathy Gannon, Associated Press's Iranian Bureau Chief, continues fellatiating Salam Daher, who many on the internet believe to be part of Hezbollah, an Iranian sponsered...
Well, I guess I answered my own question.
The article itself is a rehash of Gannon's Sunday piece with the exception of how Daher got his face scratched (I'd lay money it was actually while shaving) and one sentence referencing, almost in passing, a certain video starring Gannon's new best friend.
In one photograph, taken after an Israeli airstrike hit a building in the village of Qana, Daher held a dead infant over his head. The boy's blue pacifier was pinned to his nightshirt.One photograph? There are several photos of this honorable man thrusting the infant toward the cameras, all from different angles and each with Salam Dahar facing the lens. One photograph: bullshit.
"I did hold the baby up, but I was saying 'look at who the Israelis are killing. They are children,'" Daher said. "These are not fighters. They have no guns. They are children, civilians they are killing.' "Gannon fails to mention the name of the website which originally posted the video: NDR Fernsehen, a German television network. When I asked about NDR on a BBS I frequent last Thursday, a member who is a German citizen responded, "NDR is part of the "official" stations under public law, and are usually quite reliable. Would have to watch that report, but normally, they're no propaganda station..."He said he had no regrets and he made no apologies. "I wanted people to see who was dying. They said they were killing fighters. They killed children."
After the photograph taken at the July 30 Qana strike, which killed 29 people, Daher has found himself under attack, accused of being a propagandist for Hezbollah guerrillas.
One Web site posted video purporting to show Daher arranging to have the body of a child taken off an ambulance and displayed for photographers.
The video has spread via YouTube and eventually aired on Faux News (very appropriate titling in this case) this morning. That alone is likely the only reason Gannon even mentioned it or why she felt she needed to write another "hero profile" on Daher a mere two days later. At no point in the article does she ask Salam Daher about the video which shows his statement about displaying only one body to the cameras to be a lie.
Oooh, your helmet is so big!
I do hope she wore her kneepads.
Posted by Skayhan at August 15, 2006 09:09 PM
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