Footage wasn't from 1991

[ciphergoth]

The 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

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If it was Grant Morrison, he'd have an arch-enemy "Isfictional"...