[John Lenin]

But video APTN shot a day after the attack shows fragments of musical instruments, and pots and pans.

[dan1123]

Hmm, I think there was a wedding celebration going on at the safehouse... Bad timing for a wedding.

Did anyone see The Battle of the Algiers? The revolutionist group was having a wedding ceremony early in the movie, claiming that the wedding was now under their, and not France's authority. I immediately thought of that when this story came up. I believe it was conducted in a safehouse in the movie as well.

[My Dog Likes Me]

Poor BG Kimmitt. He should retire before his inevitable nervous breakdown during a press conference in the near future.

Now, there is no doubt in my mind that we got some really bad guys in this air attack, but when a general in the US Army says "What kind of people hold wedding receptions in the middle of the desert??," as Kimmitt did last week, I respond, "Let me think, sir,...ARABS maybe???" He lost his credibility with me when he asked that stupid question.

The other senior military leadership over there appears substandard, as well. Sorry, folks, if this upsets you.

[claudwitz]

The home-video entitled, "Abu Do-u-luv" produced and directed by Michael Moore, was to be released for the Cannes Film Festival but according to his press agent, Osama bin Laden, "technical difficulties held us back."

We caught Mr. Moore at the local Jock-In-De-Box and he had these comments: "We've been working on this movie since the invasion of Iraq. It was truly an inspiration. Too bad the Army couldn't find a terrorist meeting earlier, however, who would have held me standing for 40 minute ovation?"

[dandelion]

Where is the corroborating evidence that this is THE wedding? Where is the press vetting this information?

So the man in the video is seen at the "wedding", then in spliced footage of a supposed "corpse" at the "wedding" - I could do that in my own house. Where is the individual corraborration of the presence of videographers at the attack? The press would require that of ANYONE else who submitted video...

When the Pentagon submits a video to the press, they have to have outstanding evidence that the video was not manufactured as "propaganda". If not, the press wouldn't show it, or would provide a disclaimer that "it was shot by the pentagon, perhaps as propaganda".

Where is that outstanding evidence that this video was not manufactured as propaganda by our enemies? Where is the disclaimer by the press?

Oh, wait - maybe the press doesn't consider those who fight us to be our "enemies"...

[dougherty]

I am at the point that I don't even care if it truly was a wedding party. Big damn deal! People at this thing should not have been firing at our troops. They got what they deserved.

[Corin Stormhands]

Lotsa wedding videos are made in Las Vegas too. Don't mean there's no hanky panky goin' on...

[bondjamesbond]

Associated Press has stressed that it cannot confirm the authenticity of the video of the wedding celebrations...

Let me run that through the Media-to-English translator...

AP stressed that they know the video is a damn forgery, but they do not give a damn...

There. Much better.

[snooker]

Take two videos, splice them together, make them say what you want. Anybody with a PC and some software can make up whatever video you decide is the 'truth according to'.

There is no reason to doubt the CPA. There have been other instances of mistakes, they were owned up to. Until they say otherwise, IMHO it's a hoax. Or worse it's outright anti-American propaganda.

Al Jeezera wouldn't put out fake videos, would they? The AP wouldn't run fake stories would they? USA Today wouldn't run fake stories would they? The Boston Globe wouldn't run porn flick photos and call them real, would they? NAW...

I need to run this by Jason Blair and see what he thinks.

[Publius6961]

'Wedding video' clouds US denials

Only among fruit loops.
Throw a tape into the discussion that could have been made anytime anywhere and you can cloud anything?

Give me a break!

[No Blue States]

The wedding propagana hoax gets one last chance..

It should be on snopes any day now.

[Piquaboy]

I have reached the point that anything the AP puts out is suspect to me.

[verity]

which purports

[NTegraT]

Let's see now, not one mention of women, not even one woman, in this description. Just men riding around shooting. Perhaps this is the equivalent of an Arab bachelor party. And then they go splice tape in. Not good evidence but it'll play in the Arab (3rd World) and Hate-America (1st World) worlds.

[Shut up and take it]

"They say over 40 people died, including at least 10 children."

Ten children that probably would have grown up to fly planes into our buildings, or blow themselves up on our streets.

[CPOSharky]

Maybe it was a Boston new style wedding.

[AmericanChef]

Heck, I don't care if there was a wedding in an enemy camp, we targeted the right place, and got some bad guys. They had their "wedding" on the wrong day, in the wrong place, and they were shooting guns. I'm sorry about "innocent" deaths, but the fact is that women, and even "children" in that part of the world can also be our enemies.

And, if they're trying to imply that their terrorist weddings are a celebration of life, I fail to see the reasoning.

[Theo]

Maybe it's not EITHER - OR, but BOTH - AND: "Both a wedding party and a safehouse for bad guys."

[wildbill]

Don't terrorists have weddings too?

I assume that is one more way they breed.

[Delbert]

Not a very good wedding planner in my opinion.