Smuggled Vid Shows IDF Kicking, Shooting Victim

New Smuggled Clip Shows IDF Commandos
Kicking and Apparently Shooting Victim
By Dave Lindorff
6-12-10

The false narrative initially put out by the Israeli government of hapless IDF commandos severely threatened by hardened "terrorists" on the Mavi Marmara has fallen apart, amid revelations of doctored photos, dubbed voices and other deceptions and the patent absurdity of the claim that the commandos had boarded the ship armed only with "paint guns" and low-caliber pistols. Now the Big Lie stands further exposed, thanks to a smuggled-out video showing IDF commandos kicking a prone victim and then apparently shooting at him on the ground with semi-automatic fire.

This smuggled video shows IDF commandos were shooting at people on the ship, not just in self-defense, and that they were armed with more than just pistols and "paint guns."

There are claims from Turkish sources that this clip shows the 19-year-old American-born Furkan Dogan being executed. Dogan's autopsy showed he was shot four times in the face, and at least once in the back.

So far, the President Obama and the White House and State Department have made no condemnation of Israel's illegal and murderous attack in international waters on a civilian ship flying the flag of a NATO ally.

This video is, for me, reminiscent of the video from the Tet Offensive in the 1968 in the Vietnam War, which showed a South Vietnamese officer executing a captured Viet Cong fighter with a pistol shot to the head, and also of the 1979 video of a soldier in the army of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza executing the ABC newsman Bill Stewart (which came across a monitor in a local ABC newsroom I happened to be visiting in rural North Carolina, causing absolute pandemonium and outrage).

Both those earlier videos of military atrocities by soldiers for regimes backed by the US significantly turned American public opinion against the US puppet regimes and the wars they were fighting. Hopefully this latest video of another atrocity by a client regime's stormtroopers will have the same effect.

To see this video, go to www.thiscantbehappening.net, the new collectively-owned, journalist-run, independent online newspaper.

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