Posted on 11/19/2004 8:53:17 PM PST by BigRedState
FRENCH SOLIDERS OPEN FIRE ON INNOCENT CIVILAINS ON THE IVORY COAST (WARNING VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO)
I have a question for you, Destro.
I too am reserving judgment about this video. There's not enough context, and the source is indeed suspect.
But there's a difference between "reserving judgment" and "being certain it's a fake". You're in the latter category. You've stated multiple times that the video is a hoax, that it was spliced together.
How do you know? Were you there? Or are you just buying crap like that about the Ivorians cause they be black?
Precisely because the media cannot place the blame on the US except by saying the cause is due to the US not being there.
The european media will stand there and watch french troops rape, torture and murder civilians and say nothing. Let a US troop look cross-eyed at a terrorists and its international news of abuse.
Well, it's over for France in Africa.
No French woman will ever be safe again.
I watched it very carefully and there are white faces visible. Near the end there are definite white faces and there is a French Tricolor pennant on one of the APV's.
I was sceptical until the end where there is no doubt about who blew away the head of the mushheaded dead guy with
Heh, do the same thing with this event. Make France explain what happened here. Not have France explain why they have sex with animals. I should have wrote that better.
For late comers who have not gone through all the posts.
There are 4 videos located here:
http://radioci.embaci.com/englishdownload/
They are:
frenchsnipersvideo1.mpg
frenchsnipersvideo2.mpg
frenchsoldiershootingcivilians1.mpg
frenchsoldiersshootingcivilians2.mpg
The important ones are the last two and have a date of 11/10/04.
frenchsoldiershootingcivilians1.mpg
is filmed from the front of the crowd. It shows the French line at the front of the hotel. It shows the French firing, etc.
frenchsoldiersshootingcivilians2.mpg
is filmed from the back of the ground. In this one, you don't see the shooting, but you hear it and see the results.
The people in the back of the crowd seem to have received the majority of the casualties as the people in the front immediately took cover and had some protection due to a wall the separated them from the French line.
see post 548 -
http://radioci.embaci.com/englishdownload/frenchsoldiershootingcivilians1.mpg
shows the actual shootings more clearly.
During the Allied invasion of Africa during WWII, German soldiers always wanted to surrender to the Americans and never to the French who, well you know the rest of the story.
This also is an illustration of the United Nations' indifference towards human life versus their own agenda. They are pushing for a socialist, tyranical rule of their favored few. To hell with anybody in their way.
God bless our President and the course he will be trying to set over the next 4 years.
Last evening it took me about 40 minutes to download the second video of the shooting into the crowd. Toward the end, this video was barely loading in. It did not show shooters or who they were aiming at. With only that information I defended the French until I could find out more.
I just downloaded and viewed the first video showing the crowd and the troops in front of the hotel.
In the first video, shooting into the crowd seems evident. At this point I do believe the French have a lot of explaining to do.
While the first video does show some animated actions by some in the crowd, it doesn't show something worth using lethal force over.
At this point I wonder if one French troop snapped, then several others joined in. I'm willing to listen to an explanation, because it's evident we don't see what the troops were motivated by. Perhaps there was something. The video sure didn't show that part of the events.
Those of you who did see the first video last night were probably thinking I was trying to misguide those who didn't see the videos at all. No, I was just trying address what I had seen, which did not warrant some of the comments I saw.
The video is damning, as it stands now. The problem I have with all this, is that we have not heard the complete story yet. Do the French have an explanation? I'd like to hear it.
If the French don't have an explanation that is suitable, they are indeed in trouble on this one.
I believe the best course of action at this point is to alert FoxNews to this and demand that they get to the bottom of it. Only by raising the visibility of this video are we going to get a fair hearing on it.
I would suggest we each contact as many news orgs as we can asking why they haven't covered the story, and demand that they do.
If indeed there was no bonified reason for the actions of these troops, then charges should be leveled against the guilty parties.
As others have said, if U.S. troops were caught on tape doing what these French soldiers seem to have been doing, they would have been trashed unmercifly. And seemingly rightfully so at this point.
I am on cable and it took me about 5 minutes to downlod it.
Picture came on full screen and was very clear, the audio was excellent. - Tom
I appolgize for giving you a hard time, when it appears you were closer to the truth than I was. It does indeed appear the French have a lot of explaining to do. I'm glad you brought this to our attention.
OH MY GOD
I'm considering setting up a permanent Tracker so we will have a way to distribute large media among us all. My bandwidth and system will handle it as long as we don't go nuts with it. lol I'll call it FReepnet or something.
Did you see it ?
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