GOTTA SEE THIS!!!***VIDEO OF TERRORISTS HITTING DHL AIRCRAFT W/S.A.M. MOBILE MISSILE*** (Japan TV)

JNN News Network Streaming Video (in Japanese) from French Journalist ^ | 25 November 2003 | AmericanInTokyo

[AmericanInTokyo]

A French journalist successfully negotiated to receive a home video taken two days ago three days ago by TERRORISTS on the ground in Baghdad near the International Airport. Japanese TV has gotten their hands on the video. Freepers, here it is.

The brief video clip, with explanation, CLEARLY shows the enemy's advance positioning on the ground, near the airport, for the missile 'hit' of an approaching Baghdad-to-Bahrain DHL cargo aircraft.

It then shows the actual missile launch, or what appears to be several launches. It also shows the "hit", under the left side wing of the aircraft.

The speed of the missile is estimated at approximately 580 meters/per/second. Amazing video (in the Japanese language but clear to understand).

Cut and paste the URL into your browser and view through Windows Media, either 56k or 300k stream, as per below, or go to the linked page for the direct link:

[AmericanInTokyo]

56k Stream: http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k

300k Stream: http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm56k

[RadioAstronomer]

WOW

[Nexus]

mms://news.streamcdn.yahoo.co.jp/yahoo/news/20031125/jnn/20031125-00000019-jnn-int-movie-001-300k-00.wmv

[Tijeras_Slim]

ping

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yep, that's another one.

[Nexus]

I'm not sold that it's the actual missle launch, but what do I know...

[mseltzer]

Are you sure the link is right? All I see is Paris Hilton.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I used to know how to 'hot link' those things on FR, right in the thread text.

Maybe a good Freeper out there can help us with the two streams, so people can view quickly....

[scan59]

Quite a video. What bothers me is that the setting is so casual. Like just a few guys setting off bottle rockets on a Saturday afternoon. Not what I think of as "war," with tanks, guns, and uniforms.

The trunk of the white car was open; that's how they brought their "bottle rockets" with them. Even room in the back for beer. Can we keep these SAMs out of the U.S.?

[Bikers4Bush]

Call me a sceptic but since the fuel is stored in the wings of aircraft if a missile hit the wing at 580 meters per second and exploded would it not cause a much large explosion than what it seems we're seeing?

[RadioAstronomer]

Use the link from the original article.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good point, of course. I'd analyze the sun angles, and then corroborate it with the time that the attack on the DHL occured the other day. That certainly without any doubt is a shoulder SAM being fired, though. Russian made.

[Quilla]

56K Stream: http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm300k
300k Stream: http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20031125-00000019-jnn-int-movie-001&media=wm56k

[AmericanInTokyo]

Skeptics entirely welcome. :-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

thanks. good job.

[AmericanInTokyo]

We might add that these video URL links might only "last" another day or two, as is the case with streaming news from Japanese TV, and in case someone reads the thread a few days from now.

[dead]

Caught on tape . . . Footage taken from a videotape given to a French journalist
shows masked militants firing the missile that hit a DHL cargo jet over Baghdad
on November 22, setting its engine ablaze and forcing it to an emergency landing. The
six-minute-long footage shows a total of 10 militants, with their faces concealed by
chequered keffiyeh headresses or white scarves, carrying out the attack from scrubland
south of the capital. Composite photo: AFP

[AmericanInTokyo]

OK, the low 'sun angle' aspect lines up.

That video was from very early in the a.m. or very late in the day. Now, place that next to this news report from three days ago:

"At approximately 6:30 GMT this morning, a DHL aircraft, an Airbus A300 freighter, departing from Baghdad to Bahrain, had to return to Baghdad and effect an emergency landing," company spokeswoman Patricia Thomson said in Brussels."

[Quilla]

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that similar video exists for TWA flight 800.

/fastening tinfoil securely

[Nexus]

It seems to me that they're firing towards a dissipated contrail, hence the skepticism.