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Fahrenheit''s Embedded Cameraman Revealed
IMDB ^ | June 27, 2004 | Hildy

Posted on 06/27/2004 8:50:33 AM PDT by Hildy

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."


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To: Nita Nupress

Well, my head is spinning.

The events in 2002 I can think of off the top of my head don't happen during the months you cite, but bookend. Joe Wilson went to Niger in February 2002 (there's a Valerie in the midst of the gobbledygook you found, as it happens), and the British Dossier was written in September of 2002, with forged documents appearing (to muddy the waters and cast doubt on the authentic intelligence supporting the yellowcake story?) in October 2002.


241 posted on 06/28/2004 9:42:27 PM PDT by cyncooper (Let Freedom Reign!)
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To: Hildy

fox has done this i have seen it. they show the good in iraq they show the military the best of the military. michael moore and his goofs are dumb. they think they can do a so called documentary about bush it is a piece of crap.
i haven't seen it but a patient of mine who is 19 told me it was a bunch of lies. he saw it he actually said people were booing when pictures of Bush were being showen that is awful. I love G.W. Bush and i think he did right by the people of Iraq


242 posted on 06/28/2004 9:44:04 PM PDT by RightWingBev
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To: Dane

I'm looking forward to seeing Mr. Hamid's pre-invasion photos of the kindly and courtly Baathists in Mr. Moore's next film, aren't you ?


243 posted on 06/28/2004 9:54:38 PM PDT by EDINVA (reporters aren't stupid .. they just think YOU are)
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To: Nita Nupress

Those may not be codes at all. There is something that was labeled "sporge", a combination of "forge" and "spam" that was used in an attempt to render newsgroups useless. Many times they used real words and/or names just to make searching news groups an impossible task. The instigators appeared to use some sort of random text generator.

Search on the word "sporge", and I'm sure you'll find plenty of background.


244 posted on 06/28/2004 10:23:24 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: pitinkie; calcowgirl

Check out this message re: Jamal Hamid:

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/www-features/2001-November/002610.html


245 posted on 06/29/2004 4:29:17 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Salamander

As low as they have to I believe.


246 posted on 06/29/2004 9:31:50 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: maggiefluffs

Hmmmm


247 posted on 06/29/2004 9:32:56 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: pitinkie

BUMP


248 posted on 06/29/2004 12:06:04 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: cyncooper

Urban Hamid

249 posted on 06/29/2004 12:14:27 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Hildy

Hmmm, Methinks I smell a Sunni.


250 posted on 06/29/2004 12:17:54 PM PDT by Conservomax (There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
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To: Nita Nupress

Iraq rescinds Al Jazeera shutdown - July 24, 2002


Iraq attack plans alarm top military: US and UK commanders 'scratching their heads' to make sense of invasion, Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger, 31 July 2002

'UN must sanction' Iraq strike, John Hooper and Richard Norton-Taylor, 31 July 2002

Profound Effect on US Economy Seen in a War on Iraq, Patrick E. Tyler and Richard W. Stevenson, 30 July 2002

US may put Iranian nuclear plant on hit list, Dana Priest, 30 July 2002

UN raps US military after Afghan wedding deaths 'cover up', David Usborne, 30 July 2002

Jordan's King and Labour MPs warn Blair on Iraq attack, Paul Waugh, 30 July 2002

Blair warned: Iraq attack 'illegal': government legal experts say UN mandate is needed for action, Paul Waugh, 29 July 2002

There should be no war in Iraq without more jaw-jaw: if British policy isto change, Blair owes us an explanation, Menzies Campbell, 29 July 2002

The last thing the US wants is democracy in Iraq, Nick Cohen, 28 July 2002

Bush and Blair Agree to Terms for Iraq Attack, Simon Tisdall and Richard Norton-Taylor, 27 July 2002

Plans to Invade Iraq Solidifying Aides Say, Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, 26 July 2002

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter", John Pilger, 25 July 2002

Letter re Australian government support for attack on Iraq, WILPF (Australia), 24 July 2002

Drop plans to attack Saddam, Tehran tells US, Simon Tisdall, 24 July 2002

New archbishop issues warning on Iraq, Stephen Bates, 24 July 2002


251 posted on 06/29/2004 12:47:19 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: maggiefluffs

Good find! Thanks for the ping :-)


252 posted on 06/29/2004 8:01:27 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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To: kcvl

Thank you!


253 posted on 06/29/2004 8:30:07 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: calcowgirl
Those may not be codes at all. There is something that was labeled "sporge", a combination of "forge" and "spam" that was used in an attempt to render newsgroups useless. Many times they used real words and/or names just to make searching news groups an impossible task. The instigators appeared to use some sort of random text generator.

Hmmm.. I've never heard of that before. Thanks. I learn something every time I come to this place. :-)

254 posted on 06/29/2004 8:31:50 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: calcowgirl
Wow, calcowgirl! I missed this when you first posted it, as I have been watching my grandkids a lot this summer.

I am now going back to read this whole thread. Thanks for the ping!

255 posted on 07/04/2004 3:54:34 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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bump


256 posted on 07/15/2004 1:13:09 PM PDT by XHogPilot
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To: mabelkitty

Followup:

His Dad, a rabid lib, later ran for office...


257 posted on 10/28/2018 6:19:23 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Hildy

Forgiving the unforgivable (Michael Berg forgives Zarqawi for hacking off his sons head)
The Sydney Morning Herald ^ | May 1, 2006
Posted by jmc1969

Michael Berg has come to terms with his son’s murderer. But to most Americans that man is still enemy No.1, writes Martin Daly in New York.
In the darkness, when the pain becomes too great, Michael Berg pulls out a chair for the man who decapitated his son and talks to him about compassion and forgiveness.
Michael Berg has cried publicly many times for his dead son but he has forgiven Zarqawi, considered by the Americans to be the premier threat to peace in Iraq, but who remains free despite a $US25 million ($33 million) bounty on his head, and the huge numbers of personnel and technological resources being used to track him down.
In offering forgiveness to a man who this week told the world he planned to continue killing, Berg has had to go down dark, complex paths and has had to come to terms with an horrendous loss that has become public property.
(Excerpt) Read more at smh.com.au ...


258 posted on 10/28/2018 6:36:47 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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