Fahrenheit''s Embedded Cameraman Revealed

Scenes in Fahrenheit 911 of U.S. soldiers taunting and sexually humiliating Iraqi civilians following the successful invasion were shot by Urban Hamid, an embedded Swedish-Iraqi journalist who is presently a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado, the university's student newspaper Camera disclosed today (Tuesday). Moore has declined to respond to questions from interviewers about whether he resorted to subterfuge in order to embed photographers among U.S. forces and has been criticized for not showing footage of the abuses to U.S. military authorities earlier. But Camera reported that the controversial footage by Hamid was actually shown at a theater in Boulder as long ago as March 1 and was subsequently brought to Moore's attention. Hamid, who has lived in the U.S. for the past 12 years, told the newspaper that he has returned to Iraq three times in the past year, presumably to continue to document the course of the war. "Every time I go back, it seems it's gotten worse ... When I last went back, people were so tired and exhausted and had lost hope. It's extremely sad to see."

Maggie...

You might want to look at the Financial Times. Hamid wrote for them... so did Duke There may be a connection.

Here's a citation for Hamid and description of author:

Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, April 13, 2003 pNA 

Between two fires.
COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Information Ltd. 
(From Bangkok Post) 
Byline: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON with reports from URBAN HAMID in Baghdad 

"The rhetoric about freedom and democracy, and the debate about 
the propaganda war and battlefield strategy, doesn't mean much to 
a little girl trying to live a normal life in Baghdad. "

(snip)

"Freelance journalist Christopher Johnson has covered seven wars and 75 countries. 
Cairo-based journalist Urban Hamid is one of 100 journalists remaining 
at the Hotel Palestine in Baghdad. 
Copyright, Christopher Johnson and Urban Hamid, all rights reserved. "

And here's one for Duke:

The Financial Times, April 30, 2003 p14 

Ending of Iraqi regime could usher in an era of long-term stability for oil-dependent states. 
COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Information Ltd. 
Byline: ANDREW DUKE, JOSHUA PUTTERMAN and SAM ZAKHEM 

"Sam Zakhem, Former US Ambassador to Bahrain 
Joshua Putterman, Former Operations Officer to the West Bank and Gaza Programme, World Bank 
Andrew R. Duke, Former Sergeant of Arms to the Colorado House of Representatives "

And here is some interesting Hamid info from another Financial Times article:

The America's Intelligence Wire, March 1, 2004 pNA
U. Colorado: Photojournalist paints picture of Iraq war with U. Colorado speech.
COPYRIGHT 2004 Financial Times Information Ltd. (From University Wire)
Byline: Abbe Smith
Photojournalist Hamid captured and displayed on the 4-by-6 foot television screen at the Youth and Family Center in Nederland depicted American soldiers transformed from innocence to experience by fear, death and the sheer brutality of war.
The event was organized by Nederland's Mountain Forum for Peace.
"The American soldiers expect it to be like a Wild West movie," Hamid told the audience as footage of young soldiers preparing for a raid rolled behind him. "They expect to go in and fight the bad guys." Hamid is back in Colorado after spending two months in Iraq documenting the American occupation. He returns six years after receiving his master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he wrote his thesis about Arab and Muslim stereotypes in U.S. media and film.
Born in Sweden, Hamid is the son of a Swedish mother and an Iraqi father. One of the main problems Hamid said he saw during his time in Iraq after the war, besides the American occupation itself, was a lack of communication and cultural understanding on the part of the American military in carrying out its mission.
"In most instances, there is no interpreter on raids," he said.
Hamid accompanied soldiers from Fort Carson, Colo., on more than 15 missions in Iraq, including a 4:30 a.m. night raid conducted in freezing cold.
(snip)

How's this for strange? It looks like someone was sending coded messages to each other back in 2002 in a Google group and "Urban Hamid" appears to be associated with them somehow. Here's one of the messages which also has the name of "Mustafa" in it. Remember him?! (I bolded all the names to make them easier to spot.)

Source:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22Urban+Hamid%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&selm=C7D
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Newsgroups: rec.gambling.other-games
Date: 2002-08-06 00:53:20 PST

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More "Urban Hamid" hits can be found in this Google group (listed below). Only one of the hits has the phrase "urban Hamid" together. Another search of the two words "urban" and "hamid" separately doesn't get any Google Groups hits other than this particular "gambling" group. (Gambling, my butt.)

And all the posts are as equally nonsensical as the one above.

Source:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=urban+hamid&btnG=Search&meta=group%3Drec.
gambling.other-games

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... All urban dark teachers stupidly clean as the hot balls care. ... Bill calls,
then Hamid simply lives a pretty sticker outside Winifred's river. ...
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What was happening in the world around this time frame of Jul 24 - Aug 6, 2002? Anyone remember?

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