Posted on 04/23/2006 7:19:27 PM PDT by edmond246
http://www.youtube.com/watch?search=Iraq+Solders&v=C4JtJv199DY
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Before it got pulled from YouTube, what was it?
Guess they took it down. Unless, of course, you mean the semi-naked guy roller skating, which, yes, is horrifying and not for the faint of heart.
Dang, figures it got pulled. It was basically a top ten of terrorist attacks on American troops, except it was from the terrorists own videos. Sort of in the style of Al-Jazzera and such with the quality of a Bin Laden video. One of the most henius spots was the video of a helicopter being shot down, then it cuts to them looking through the reckage, and finding the pilot alive, and as he gets up they all shoot him, probably 25-50 times. It's horrible. Other things include Q'uran verses and praises of Allah inbetween sucide bombings and such. Sick and I wish YouTube had the guts to keep it up.
They couldn't win either way. Take it down and people say they're cowards, leave it up and people would say they are collaborators.
Youtube doesn't control what is published, they are only reactive in removing material.
Also, places like youtube are "legit",
The "illegit" have the hundreds of available torrents and/or direct d/l's of every terrorist video and audio ever published. Those Bin Laden videos available in Kabul, Karbala, Damascus, NJ Turnpike gas stations are first D/L'ed from web servers/torrent seeds in the West.
If one believes the viral marketers in LA, NYC and London, it would be better to allow some of these videos onto "legit" sites to track their popularity, and IP demographics to find useful info.
After the arrest of the British internet terrorist Younis Tsouli, it was alluded that the NSA and Scotland Yard use software comparable to Big Champagne to help distribute terrorist propaganda torrents. The info received is invaluable for data mining.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500020_pf.html
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