[Enchante]

"Why did they wait four months to tell anyone about this?"

An excellent question! The answer lies with one or more of the following points: (1) wait for optimal propaganda moment; (2) wait for optimal personal propaganda contact such as meeting the TIME mag. bozo from Beserkley; (3) takes time to manufacture the desired evidence; (4) prompt coalition investigation in Nov. 2005 could have blown apart the propaganda set-up, now it's difficult or impossible to disprove jihadist assertions..... And so on....... these fraudulent "human rights" jihadists must be exposed and discredited. Whatever went on in Haditha, these two are far from credible sources for anything.

[Sam Hill]

Back in March when this story first was reported by Time Magazine we were told by Time reporter Ghosh (via Democracy Now!) that Thaer Thabit (aka Thabet) al-Hadithi did not want his name known out of concern for his personal safety:

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.

AMY GOODMAN: And you got a hold of this, or Hammurabi Human Rights got a hold of this.

APARISIM GHOSH: He brought the tape to Hammurabi Human Rights, which is a local human rights group, and they brought it to us once they found out that we were inquiring about this.