You said — “I know nothing will ever come of this, but I’m still puzzled by the coincidental appearance of a Palestinian student taking video and audio of the actual massacre. In his own words, he ran towards the gunfire, not away from it, then became a media star for a day because of it.”
Don’t turn this into a conspriracy nut comment, here. I know what you’re talking about — but you’re portraying it in a *loaded* way — and not the way it was presented on TV.
You’re talking about the cel phone video shot by a guy who was a student passing by the building. This guy looks like he was getting in his car to leave (I think I saw a windshield wiper blade on the camera shot, that’s why I say that).
He *did not* take any pictures of the massacre. He was outside like a lot of other students happened to be that day. Heck, there were even students *inside* that building who happened to leave the classroom at a particular time (on the very same floor) and did not even know there was shooting going on. I saw an interview of that, by a girl who said that (she was on the same floor and didn’t know what was going on).
Anyway, this guy saw a bunch of cops with their guns out. He thought something was up, so he started shooting from his cel phone. He’s far away and you can barely make out the details of who these cops are. He’s the one that makes it clear that they are cops. They are outside the building. He is outside the building. You hear “pop, pop, pop” on the sound — gunfire. He said he wasn’t sure if the cops were firing or the shooter was firing. However the shooter is inside the building and no one can see him. So, you dont see any massacre, all you see is a few cops, hunkering down low, hear a few “pops” and the video is over in a few seconds.
It’s over because another cop came up behind him and told him to get out of there in a hurry and *run*. So, he did.
That was it. Nothing more sinister than that. No Palestinian, no scenes of the massacre — just a few cops hunkering down, a few pops and then the cops says to get out of there.
So, as I say — you’re greatly misrepresenting this video...
I saw it on the web site of CNN. I also downloaded the video. It was interesting to see it....
Regards,
Star Traveler
See post 916...I didn’t even know the kid was Palestinian until Blitzer mentioned again and again he was part of a well know Palestian family. Then I googled the guy’s last name and came up with lots of Al Barghoutis that are Palestinians. Some are good guys, some are bad guys. I’m not trying to promote a conspiracy...just saying the first guy to have video/audio of the scene (in the right place at the right time) was Palestinian. He said he ran toward the gunfire, and when asked why he wasn’t afraid and didn’t take cover said he was used to this kind of thing in his country. Just the facts!