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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And another Duh!
Date: 2001-09-20 12:58 am (UTC)"Nostradamus did not write the quatrain now being attributed to him. ... It originated with a student at Brock University in Canada in the 1990s, appearing on a web page essay on Nostradamus. That particular quatrain was offered by the page's author, Neil Marshall, as a fabricated example to illustrate how easily an important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the use of abstract imagery." (Italics mine)
Wow! It just goes to show - never make stuff up in an attempt to demonstrate how gullible people are - it will always come back to haunt you...