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thedrifter
01-15-09, 07:02 AM
Israelis Employing Combat Camera Teams [Gregory S. McNeal]

From Danger Room, "IDF units are employing combat videographers, photographers, or sound engineers, to do what the Israeli military calls 'operational verification.'" The author, Noah Shachtman, quotes Defense News:

An IDF officer said the Israeli military spokesman’s organization runs eight active-duty teams . . . specially trained in . . . documentation of ongoing operations . . .

"Our aim is to document the story in real time while we still have a chance to influence public opinion. We show how the other side is making cynical use of its civilians by storing weaponry in mosques, booby trapping the homes of its own people and using schools and hospitals as command centers," he said.

Weapons Horde in Gazan Mosque 13 Jan. 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zd55Zhj5gQ&eurl=http://tank.nationalreview.com/


Ellie