Terror by video: How Iraq's kidnappers drew their inspiration from horrors of Chechnya First Edition

All sides in Iraq have joined the video war. The first day of Saddam Hussein's trial was videotaped and handed to journalists by US military censors who initially tried to delete the soundtrack - something they succeeded in doing with the 11 Baathists whose arraignment followed shortly afterwar...

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Published inIndependent (London, England : 1986)
Main Author Robert Fisk in Baghdad
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Independent Digital News & Media 26.07.2004
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Qutb, Mohamed Mamdouh
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Summary:All sides in Iraq have joined the video war. The first day of Saddam Hussein's trial was videotaped and handed to journalists by US military censors who initially tried to delete the soundtrack - something they succeeded in doing with the 11 Baathists whose arraignment followed shortly afterwards. There has even been an odd tape in which gunmen calling themselves "the Iraqi resistance" threaten the life of the al-Qa'ida member Abu Musab al-Zarqawi unless he leaves Iraq. Zarqawi is blamed by the Americans and by Iraq's new American-appointed Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, for suicide bombings in the country. But many Iraqis suspected the tape was made by the Iraqi authorities - and were convinced this was the case when the "resistance" men referred respectfully not to the "occupation forces" in Iraq but to the "coalition forces", the official name which the Western armies in Iraq have adopted. This video is known as the "Allawi tape".
ISSN:0951-9467