Footage wasn't from 1991
Sep. 19th, 2001 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothThe wonderful Snopes is on top of it. The footage of celebrating Palestinians was shot on Tuesday, 11 September 2001 in East Jerusalem by a Reuters TV crew.
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm
They've got a whole page of war-related rumours:
http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm
probably worth checking out next time you hear a good one (eg Nostradamus). Most implausible so far: 4000 Israelis working in the WTC get a tip-off not to turn up to work on Tuesday, and not one of them breaks the vow of silence, not even, say, to warn a colleague...
http://www.thisiscyberia.com/NewsCenter/article.asp?ID=196628
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm
They've got a whole page of war-related rumours:
http://www.snopes2.com/info/rumors.htm
probably worth checking out next time you hear a good one (eg Nostradamus). Most implausible so far: 4000 Israelis working in the WTC get a tip-off not to turn up to work on Tuesday, and not one of them breaks the vow of silence, not even, say, to warn a colleague...
http://www.thisiscyberia.com/NewsCenter/article.asp?ID=196628
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Date: 2001-09-19 03:57 pm (UTC)Wow. You know, if that were true I'd actually take it as a really good sign for peace in the middle east. :)
(yeah, gallows humour. sorry)
JD (who unfortunetly knows exactly how likely the average american is to know why the concept of isrealies and palestinians working together to take out the U.S. is..not very. *sigh*)