Sunday, January 14, 2007

Spies like us

From Yahoo News:

Egyptian authorities on Saturday detained an Al-Jazeera journalist for fabricating scenes of torture staged inside mock Egyptian police stations, but the pan-Arab network said the footage was created with actors for a documentary film.
the article further states:
An arts committee affiliated with the Interior Ministry viewed the tapes and said they showed "unedited scenes of fabricated torture incidents, and assaults by individuals wearing police uniforms on others playing roles of male and female suspects inside studios decorated to look like police stations," the statement said. The tapes have not been made public.
Now I have long believed that the war against radical Islam is not only a clash and war of cultures, religions and ideologies, but that it is also a war of propaganda. This is just one more tiny bit of the proof of that. This war will probably not be won with bullets and bombs, but with words and video clips... sure the bullets and the bombs help, but the Jihad's know that if they play enough sad, gruesome or terrifying videos on American TV, that they will win... I just hope that you all recognize when you are being spoon fed the BS.

Hat Tip to LittleGreenFootballs

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