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To: tekboy who wrote (1330)	9/25/2001 8:10:35 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This type of disinformation, emanating from this source, was to be expected..... JLA

To: tekboy who wrote (1330)	9/25/2001 10:36:28 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh puh-leeze, yourself. I thought the story was amusing. I find what the Palestinians did in Nablus irrelevant. Good for firing up emotions in the US, and getting the self righteous to pontificate self righteously, but beyond that? Want to explain what bearing it has on anything in the foreign policy area?

To: tekboy who wrote (1330)	9/25/2001 12:51:15 PM
From: LLLefty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

A few addenda to the wire service photos and film of celebrations in Nablus after the Sept. 11 horror. 1. The AP bowed to Palestinian threats and did not move the film in an effort to protect its cameraman from bodily harm. This according to Washington Post in one of its editions after Sept. 11. 2. The segment I saw on TV showed a considerable number of people, the women dancing and the men firing rifles into the air. I don't know whose film it was but there is a fear on the wire services that by carrying material antithetical to the Palestinian cause puts their people at risk. 3. Whether it colors or inhibits reporting might be considerable debatable. But it does seem true that the Palestinians have taken a leaf from the Israeli playbook to become much more adept in seeking to influence public opinion. It's something of an uneven game since Israel operates under pretty much the same press information ground rule we do. In the West Bank, it's a different story, as noted by the following: 4. Last year, an AFP photogrpaher caught the only picture of a Palestinian showing his bloody hands to the crowd after the slitting of the throats of two Israeli reservists in a PA police station. AFP moved the picture on its wires and the photographer was hustled out of the region. The photo won runnerup for the Pulitzer Prize. The AFP photographer's real name was not given. If I recall right, it was listed as "Anonymous." 5. Now it is possible that the revolving Fatima was actually one of a mass of people suffering from a sudden case of St. Vitus's Dance. Why not?