Al Jazeera and Sky News on Sunday aired videos showing rebels celebrating their surprisingly quick victory over Tripoli in Green Square.
But we believe that they have actually been showing a staged scene, including a fake scenery, one that’s reportedly been built in Doha, Qatar. Impossible you say? Then continue reading.
First off, let’s see a recording of a show aired on the Libyan state television on 17 Aug, just four days before the incident. In it, we are told that parts of Tripoli have been reproduced in Qatar, to be used as a scenery for fake proof of the fall of Tripoli.
Now watch this video that Al Jazeera aired yesterday. Watch very closely at around 1:19.
We believe that what we’re seeing here isn’t the original Bab al-Hurriya (“Freedom Gate”) and the 600 year old ancient walls around it. Compare the video with some photographs of the same spot. Notice how in the Jazeera video, the motive above the small arch is very vague, while the the street behind the left gate looks a lot like a photograph or a painting.
Source: http://cyaegha-c.livejournal.com/460657.html.
The relatively small crowd in the video seems to be there solely for the camera. We are reminded a lot of the staged toppling of Saddam’s statue in April 2003, which Robert Fisk called “the most staged photo-opportunity since Iwo Jima.”
@GrayCardinal1 noted that there haven’t been any daytime pictures from today showing rebels cheering inside Tripoli. He suggested that the scenery works better for nighttime shots. He also suggested that Al Jazeera has prepared fake footage showing victorious rebels in front of the Bab al-Azizia compound, which it is yet to air.
What’s the purpose of these fake news?
According to metrogael.blogspot.com, the “Al Jazeera hoax was intended to create the impression that Tripoli had fallen so as”:
- to break the Libyan resistance by creating panic and chaos in the Libyan captial.
- to provide cover for the massacres of civilians that would occur in the days following the declaration of rebel victory.
What is really happening in Tripoli, then?
If what we’re seeing in the mainstream media is made up, then what is really happening in Tripoli?
Reliable sources say that only the Gargaresh and Janzour areas in western Tripoli are under rebel control and that there has been heavy fighting and intense Nato bombing, with immense human losses. On the night of Saturday alone, 350 people are reported to have been killed, with 3000 more wounded. Meanwhile, Nato admits to having helped arm underground groups in Tripoli over the past three months.
The same reliable sources say that the center, including the Green Square and the area around the Rixos hotel, and the rest of Tripoli remain under government control. Furthermore, none of Gaddafi’s sons have actually been captured or killed, contrary to what has been widely reported.
Update Tuesday morning: Just now, Saif al-Gaddafi personally went to the Rixos hotel to prove that he’s not detained. Earlier today, Mohammad Gaddafi has been reported to have fled from house arrest. And then Khamis Gaddafi, whose dead body rebels claim to have found, has in fact been reported dead at least three times by the rebels: on 20 March, 5 August and today.
Update Tuesday night: Here’s a video from early Tuesday that shows Saif al-Gaddafi visiting together with journalists the Bab al-Azizia military compound. He’s not even wearing a vest, and apparently the compound is indeed in tight loyalist control.
According to @TheTruthLibya, videos being aired on all major news channels showing victorious rebels in Bab al-Azizia are fake!
If you want more up-to-date information on what’s really happening in Tripoli and Libya, I suggest you follow @GrayCardinal1, @LibyanLiberal and friends on Twitter. And Mathaba and the Centre for Reasearch on Globalization.
Doubting Thomas
24 August 2011
Quite obvious video cloning and blurring on that ‘Al-jazeera video. Check 1.29 as the covered up detail begins to show as the camera pans and zooms past.
Next time you want to spread bull crap hire a better editor
TinfoilHatTime
24 August 2011
At 1.22 you can clearly see the molding on the wall above the passageway. Sorry but this just seems a case of bad lighting and not a staged scene. I am sorry but yea detail is harder to make out in badly lit enviroments blame your eyes not Al-Jazeera.As for the video cloning and blurring but this is again a case of a poorly lit enviroment being filmed. Anyways shouldnt we all still be working on proving how they faked the moon landing?
Anonymous
24 August 2011
BUT I WATCH CLOSELY! AND I SEE THE DETAILS!
do i have to make a screen shot and show it to you?
second 1:23 you see the square above the right gate on the right side. second 1:24 you see the line in the middle of the wall going from right to left second 1:27 you see the upper side of the gate EXACTLY as it appears on the REAL photos.
and when you zoom out the details disappear.
comon
Stop War Crimes! (@StopWarCrimes)
24 August 2011
Interesting how Anonymous and TinfoilHatTime “clearly” see things “exactly” the way they appear on the original. While Doubting Thomas says the video has been edited to remove the details and make it look fake.
I suggest you guys check out the comments on YouTube, where most people agree it’s an obvious fake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVzld5C_BrY
Doubting Thomas
25 August 2011
Most people are obvious idiots.
The markings are clearly on that wall and either blurred/cloned out or lost in the encoding. The ledge that leads off the motif and along the side wall back to the other arch is also clearly visible throughout the video
Stop War Crimes! (@StopWarCrimes)
25 August 2011
In reply to Doubting Thomas:
First you talk of deliberate and “obvious video cloning and blurring”. And now you’re saying that maybe it’s the quality of the video, as details are “lost in the encoding.” I think you should make up your mind.
Mike
8 September 2011
Another blatant media lie was the bbc ‘live broadcast’ showing jubilant Libyans celebrating the fall of Tripoli in Green Square – http://bsnews.info/BBC_Propaganda.html As can be clearly seen from the flags, this was archive footage from a rally in India. The bbc said this was a mistake but I doubt it. They knew this was not Tripoli – the footage was either sent to them as a ‘live stream’ or they played their own archives and made out it was a live stream. Either way, their viewers were deceived. What’s more disturbing is official bbc explanation of the ‘mistake’ – http://bsnews.info/BBC_Correspondence.html
According to the CIRET-AVT Libya Report of May 2011, “It is no exaggeration to say that Al Jazeera created the ‘event’ that influenced the UN.
For a great critique of the media’s role in this bloody war, see: http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=645:to-avert-a-bloodbath-libya-and-the-press-part-2-&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68
Anonymous
4 October 2011
at :59 it looks like the guy is wearing a press pass
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21 October 2011
Laughing at GADAFFI’s CORPSE Are you really that sad that you can be happy that the rule of law has gone and extra-judicial killing is now the norm? Maybe you’ll be next.
Its ironic isn’t it that the reason people voted and supported UNSCR1973, authorising a no-fly zone, was in condemnation of (alleged) summary executions? The way people like yourself have become desensitised and dehumanised by the portrayal and celebration of brutal murder and barbarism has me wondering if we’re any more advanced or civilised than Roman times.
You are a disgrace to our species. Hang your head in shame!
alyans
9 April 2012
same thing happening in syria. Who’s going to stop this blatant liars?
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6 February 2013
Thats what you get for listening to Robert Fisk. Presstitute for dictators. Accept defeat stop the conspiracy crap, take your medication & get over it.
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