Posted on 06/13/2006 12:08:43 PM PDT by Defiant
WASHINGTON - A music video posted to the Internet, telling a tale about a U.S. Marine killing members of an Iraqi family, is being condemned by an Islamic group and investigated by the Marine Corps.
The four-minute video, called "Hadji Girl," appears to be sung by a Marine in front of a cheering audience. The lyrics talk about the Marine gunning down members of an Iraqi woman's family after they confront him with automatic weapons.
Lt. Col. Scott Fazekas, a spokesman for the Marines, said Tuesday that the Marines were aware of a video posted on the Internet that "purports to show a Marine singing an insensitive song about Iraqis." Fazekas said officials don't know the identity of the singer or whether he is in the military.
The song was "inappropriate and contrary to the high standards expected of all Marines," Fazekas said. He said Marine officers are looking into the matter.
Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said that in light of recent allegations of atrocities committed by Marines in Haditha and other towns in Iraq, the video should be investigated by the Pentagon and Congress.
"The inappropriate actions of a few individuals should not be allowed to tarnish the reputation of all American military personnel," said Awad.
The video was posted anonymously on the http://www.youtube.com Web site, but was removed. It is still available on CAIR's web site. A Hadji is a pilgrim who journeys to Mecca, but CAIR said the word has often been used as a disparaging term by U.S. troops in Iraq.
"The video is not reflective of the tremendous sacrifices and dedication demonstrated, on a daily basis, by tens of thousands of Marines who have assisted the Iraqi people in gaining their freedom," Fazekas said. "We agree with the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations that the inappropriate actions of a few individuals should not tarnish the reputation of all American military personnel."
The singer is shown playing a guitar and singing about meeting an Iraqi woman and then being confronted by her brother and father, who have guns. The lyrics describe the Marine pulling the woman's little sister in front of him and watching blood spray from her head.
He then sings about blowing the father and brother "to eternity."
Defense officials are investigating allegations that U.S. Marines massacred as many as two dozen unarmed civilians in Haditha last November. Another probe is under way into charges that U.S. troops pulled an unarmed Iraqi man from his home in Hamandiya in late April and shot him to death without provocation.
Did CAIR ever denounce the jihadist music videos that cheered the 9-11 attacks and called for the murder of Bush and Blair?
The Right Brothers song "Bush was Right" is much funnier. All of Paul Shanklin's songs are much funnier. Conservatives like PJ O'Rourke are much funnier than polemicists like Garrison Keillor, who wouldn't know subtlety if it tickled him on the ear.
This song is pretty good, it's in the nature of a talent show at a High School, not a professional musician putting something out for sale. Main thing is, Arab terrorist supporters like CAIR should not be attacking our guys for making fun of the enemy. That's what we do in wars.
CAIR's denunciations of any terrorist actions have been conspicuous in their absence, or muddled by weasel words about the root cause.
Video looks like it was edited bigtime.
"This video has been removed by the user."
Dammit.
http://www.youtube.com/index?&session=gAJ9cQEoVQxlcnJvcl9maWVsZHNxAmNfX2J1aWx0aW5fXwpzZXQKcQNdhVJxBFUGZXJyb3JzcQVdcQZVKFRoaXMgdmlkZW8gaGFzIGJlZW4gcmVtb3ZlZCBieSB0aGUgdXNlci5xB2FVCG1lc3NhZ2VzcQhdcQl1Lg==
This is not even good lip synch.
The audio and the video are not synced, but it looks like the singer and the words go together, they are just a couple seconds apart. This happens sometimes when videos formats are converted.
Where is Mary Mapes?
This video is a fake.
The audio doesn't match the video at all. Even allowing for some synch slip, his mouth is not anywhere near forming the words that are supposedly coming out of it.
This happens all of the time when islamists attempt to put out fake propaganda. Although I do have fun watching some of it. These cretins can not even do a decent job of spoofing still images and audio. Mix it up with motion video and multi-language support, throw in captioning and a PID stream, and these sand maggots that claim to invent mathematics can not even convince a blind mute that it is original.
Right - it was funny. Just shows how bloodthirsty the jihadist are
- kill their own to try and take down a Marine (although I can't imagine
a real Marine hiding behind a child)
How come CAIR isn't upset that the singer portrayed the father
and brother as terrorists - oh right, that would be too hard too believe
And besides that, ... Doesn't the Guitar in the audio sound more like an electric, rather than an acoustic that the guy is holding & strumming?
I'm far from an expert on guitar sounds, (never been a huge music fan), but it sure sounds like it to me.
I suppose it is possible it is a fake. I wonder if a musician can look at the guitar chords being played and see if they correspond to the tune. If so, it is probably just a sync issue. It appeared to me that he was saying the words being sung, they just were a few seconds off. Where is the Mapes patrol?
I still suspect that it wasn't really done by marines. A much likelier scenario if the Marines were writing/performing the song would be that when the jihadis shoot at him rather than using the girl as a shield he would push her out of the way, drop to the ground and roll and come up shooting the jihadis.
Arizona Republic cartoonist Steve Benson caricatures the symbol of the US Marine Corps and gets more than he bargained for.
Outrageous! How these people maintain jobs is beyond me. They hate America and all it stands for.
Speaking of commie songs. I saw two albums of US protester songs from the 1970s. Songs about support for VC in Vietnam, a brewery's striking labor union, support for Palestine, etc. Summed up the PC left.
A couple things I observed:
(A) The audio and video were notably out of synch for me on playback. Can someone resynch them and let us know if they even are an original pair? Or is this an overdub?
(B) As noted the "Dirka Dirka Mohammed jihad" refrain is from Team America. Without the Dirka Dirka, the line would not get a laugh. If Bush suddenly announced he was "The king of my domain", there would be laughs too (at least from those who watch Seinfeld).
(C) I notice that CAIR is hosting this video on YouTube. If CAIR believes it to be hate filled, then report the violation to YouTube. I imagine that they would be opposed to hosting hate filled videos on their site.
I see from the AP article, they say that YouTube "removed" the video. Maybe but CAIR's link is to an active posting of the YouTube hosted video.
Click on the Share link if you doubt it...
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