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Tue, 05/04/2010 - 13:38
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A tale of two videos
TEHRAN, May 4 (MNA) -- Some very contradictory reports have been issued about the recent New York City car bomb plot.
The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks activities of terrorist groups on the Internet, claimed on Sunday it had discovered a video posted by a group linked with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on video-sharing website Youtube that showed Taliban militants taking responsibility for the failed New York City car bomb plot, saying it would have been retribution for the death of former Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
The Pakistani Taliban, who mostly come from illiterate Pashtun tribes and are based in the most underprivileged and underdeveloped area of the country, actually do not have the capacity to carry out terrorist attacks in the heart of New York.
The Pashtun in Pakistan’s North and South Waziristan tribal areas, near the border with Afghanistan, live according a tribal code that is thousands of years old and are mostly cut off from the modern way of life. They can place bombs here and there, particularly in cities near their stronghold, both in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they don’t have the knowledge and technology necessary to conduct sophisticated terrorist attacks in U.S. cities.
On Monday, the Pakistani Taliban also said they were not aware of a video attributed to them claiming responsibility for the attempted car bombing in New York late on Saturday.
“We don’t know about this video. As far as I know, none of our people have posted it. We have no information about it,” TTP chief spokesman Azam Tariq said on Monday.
If the Taliban is not behind this failed terrorist plot in New York, then who is?
The New York surveillance video, made public late on Sunday, shows an unidentified white man, apparently in his 40s, slipping down Shubert Alley and taking off his shirt, revealing another underneath. In the same clip, he’s seen looking back in the direction of the smoking vehicle and surreptitiously putting the first shirt in a bag.
On Monday, the hunt was on for this man. Authorities also wanted to talk to the owner of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that was used in the attempted attack.
New York Police Department officials called it the most serious car bomb plot in the city since the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, in which six people were killed and more than 1,000 injured, The Associated Press reported.
So, why are so many media outlets focusing on the video allegedly made by the Taliban, which most people believe is fake, and not focusing on the video of the white man, which is definitely not fake?
Could it be that the Western media outlets do not want to say that the main suspect is an ethnic European? Is there some racism involved? Do the executives of these Western media outlets want to blame a person of color?
Or could it be that the New York City car bomb plot was a false flag operation meant to implicate Muslims, which was inconveniently exposed by a surveillance camera video?
(By Gul Jammas Hussain)
The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks activities of terrorist groups on the Internet, claimed on Sunday it had discovered a video posted by a group linked with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on video-sharing website Youtube that showed Taliban militants taking responsibility for the failed New York City car bomb plot, saying it would have been retribution for the death of former Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
The Pakistani Taliban, who mostly come from illiterate Pashtun tribes and are based in the most underprivileged and underdeveloped area of the country, actually do not have the capacity to carry out terrorist attacks in the heart of New York.
The Pashtun in Pakistan’s North and South Waziristan tribal areas, near the border with Afghanistan, live according a tribal code that is thousands of years old and are mostly cut off from the modern way of life. They can place bombs here and there, particularly in cities near their stronghold, both in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they don’t have the knowledge and technology necessary to conduct sophisticated terrorist attacks in U.S. cities.
On Monday, the Pakistani Taliban also said they were not aware of a video attributed to them claiming responsibility for the attempted car bombing in New York late on Saturday.
“We don’t know about this video. As far as I know, none of our people have posted it. We have no information about it,” TTP chief spokesman Azam Tariq said on Monday.
If the Taliban is not behind this failed terrorist plot in New York, then who is?
The New York surveillance video, made public late on Sunday, shows an unidentified white man, apparently in his 40s, slipping down Shubert Alley and taking off his shirt, revealing another underneath. In the same clip, he’s seen looking back in the direction of the smoking vehicle and surreptitiously putting the first shirt in a bag.
On Monday, the hunt was on for this man. Authorities also wanted to talk to the owner of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder that was used in the attempted attack.
New York Police Department officials called it the most serious car bomb plot in the city since the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, in which six people were killed and more than 1,000 injured, The Associated Press reported.
So, why are so many media outlets focusing on the video allegedly made by the Taliban, which most people believe is fake, and not focusing on the video of the white man, which is definitely not fake?
Could it be that the Western media outlets do not want to say that the main suspect is an ethnic European? Is there some racism involved? Do the executives of these Western media outlets want to blame a person of color?
Or could it be that the New York City car bomb plot was a false flag operation meant to implicate Muslims, which was inconveniently exposed by a surveillance camera video?
(By Gul Jammas Hussain)
