Anti-U.S. Attack Videos Spread on Internet

Posted on Oct 6, 2006

Videos showing attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq have started appearing on sites like YouTube. The service is taking many down, but it can’t keep up with the volume, and they abound.

Like this one.

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N.Y. Times:

Videos showing insurgent attacks against American troops in Iraq, long available in Baghdad shops and on Jihadist Web sites, have steadily migrated in recent months to popular Internet video-sharing sites, including YouTube and Google Video.

Many of the videos, showing sniper attacks against Americans and roadside bombs exploding under American military vehicles, have been posted not by insurgents or their official supporters but apparently by Internet users in the United States and other countries, who have passed along videos found elsewhere.

Among the scenes being viewed daily by thousands of users of the sites are sniper attacks in which Americans are felled by snipers as a camera records the action and of armored Humvees or other military vehicles being hit by roadside bombs.

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