"AMY GOODMAN: And then, this Haditha journalism student, who is this student?
APARISIM GHOSH: We’d rather not say, for his own protection, but he’s a young local man. It’s not uncommon in Iraq for young people to have video cameras and cameras, and there's so much going on in their lives that they have plenty to shoot. "
"The student was probably an insirgent."
Almost certainly.
Today's Time article describes him as:
"budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist. Taher Thabet, 43..."
And:
"Thabet–who last year co-founded a small outfit called the Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and Democracy Monitoring..."
According to Time, Thabet (a "budding journalist") sat on tis for months, and never bothered to pass it on to any media outlets, or even NGOs or anything.
Hell, he didn't even bother to video this "massacre" until the next day. And even then he seems to have gotten very little revealing footage.
Time never says how they got the tape, BTW. Which is kind odf weird.
But all of the sources that Time claims are highly suspect:
The Questionable Sources For Time’s Haditha Scoop | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/budding-journalist-sat-on-haditha-tape#comment-25213
Gauche (Ghosh) is a jihaddi masquerading as a journalist....here's his pic wearing red. I saw him on the tube and mistook him for Zacarias Moussaoui the 20th hijacker (now in Denver Max Fed); they could easily be brothers!
Ghosh:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baghdadchris/26156348/
Moussaoui (upper right) mugshot:
http://www.mugshots.com/Terrorists/Zacarias+Moussaoui.htm