Beeb Ordered to Hand Over Raw Footage From Intifada Documentary
September 27, 2012 15:03 by Pesach Benson
A US judge ordered the BBC to release raw footage from a decade-old documentary to American victims of Palestinian terror.
The victims and their families — who filed a lawsuit against the PA claiming it funded terror groups — argued that raw footage of Jeremy Bowen’s interviews with Yasser Arafat and two gunmen from the Al-Aqsa Brigades may contain statements linking several bombings to the PA/PLO.
The Independent writes:
The BBC resisted the application, arguing that complying with the demand would compromise its editorial independence and damage its ability to gather news.
In a ruling obtained by The Independent, the American judge said he was “sceptical” that the unbroadcasted footage would provide the proof sought but threw out the Corporation’s objection, saying the recordings were not confidential and not covered by “journalistic privilege” designed to protect reporters’ investigations.
Judge Ronald Ellis said: “The outtakes are not confidential material because the BBC is free to disseminate any portions of the interviews . . .
Why do the victims believe that Bowen’s documentary, Arafat Investigated, contains a “smoking gun?”
The material in the New York case relates to interviews with Ata Abu Rumaileh, the leader of Fatah in Jenin, and Zakaria Zubaidi, a claimed leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank city.
In the broadcasted section of the programme, the two men are claimed to have made statements describing Al Aqsa as being part of Fatah and under the control of Arafat, who died in Paris in 2004. . .
The American victims believe the unused interview will help prove their case that Fatah and Al Aqsa were closely connected and thus render the PLO and the Palestinian Authority liable for damages under US anti-terrorism laws.
I hope the Beeb will be more forthcoming now than its been with the Balen report. It spent a half-million bucks of public money covering that up.
Ed Frias
5:35 am
Sep 28, 2012
The best article about the UK’s anti Israel’s agenda.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12230
Op-Ed: Europe’s Jews: A Brit’s View on UK Palestinianism
September 27, 2012
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iris claire blutreich
7:25 pm
Sep 29, 2012
REMOVE THE BBC FROM NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO. 1776 We are a free country and we don’t have to air British propaganda.
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Mohammed
8:10 am
Oct 11, 2012
I like the answer of this German Scholar when he was asked about terrorism and Islam: He said:
· Who started the First World War, which killed 37 million and injured 22, 379, 053 that includes 7 million civilians? Muslims?
· Who started the Second World War, which killed over 60 million, which was over 2.5% of the world population? Muslims?
· Who killed about 20 million of Aborigines in Australia? Muslims?
· Who drop the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed 166,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki? Muslims?
· Who killed more than 100 million Red Indians in North America? Muslims?
· Who killed more than 50 million Indian in South Americ
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