According to experts, a video by the Iraqi insurgent group 1920 Revolutionary Brigade, which purports to show a British military airplane being shot down, is ‘bogus’. Which means the credibility of the 1920 Revolutionary Brigade is pretty well shot. But you’ve got to hand it to their video production unit for (1) getting footage of the plane’s wreckage within one hour of the crash, and (2) having the aforementioned bogus video aired on Al-Jazeera the next day. That’s a pretty quick turn around time.
So if this insurgent group thing doesn’t work out, you’ve got to think a few of these people might have a future in the American news media, getting the video footage out immediately as celebrity defendants walk in and out of the courthouse.
Couple that with the toy soldier and you can really see how effectively the terrorists are using the media to their own advantage. While you or I may take the time to discern the validity of these videotapes… less discerning people maybe be easily fooled.
I wonder if Al-Jazeera had any disclaimers when airing the video, other than the standard “this group claims” type language?