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To: Dayuhan who wrote (98451)	5/18/2003 8:00:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The one difference between Mohammed al Dura's death and your 'normal' urban street fight is the videotape. The boy and his father were being filmed and nobody can accuse the Palestinians of being unaware of the possibilities of film. Also, the incident was less chaotic than your riot because the Israelis were stationed in one fortified checkpoint. The main argument is simply that the boy and his father were out of the line of Israeli fire. Of course, you can never know with 100% certainty, etc, etc, but I haven't heard anybody even allege that the Israelis were anyplace else. I don't believe the whole conspiracy theory either, because it's too complicated. Why make it a conspiracy? All it would take is one person who noticed that boy and his father were being filmed to decide to 'martyr' them for the cause. What could be simpler than that?

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