Jihadi Propaganda Debunked

An Iraqi insurgent propaganda video, containing what is described as a Christmas message from a U.S. soldier taped just before he was killed, appeared on dozens of Web sites and on the al Jazeera network.

But a lot about the video does not add up, including the fact that ABC News found the supposedly dead soldier is "alive and well" and present for duty, according to a U.S. Army spokesman at Fort Campbell, Ky.

"There are a whole bunch of lies on that tape," said Lt. Col. Ed Loomis at Fort Campbell. "It is nothing but a total fabrication."

A lie can travel around the world before the truth gets its boots on. In this case, the video was distributed around the world claiming that a US soldier taped it before he was killed, and in which he made various accusations about the violent things he and his comrades did in Iraq.

One tiny problem.

None of it happened.

The soldier, Lee Kimball Tucker, is alive and well, and was with his family during Christmas so that there's no way he could have been sending Christmas messages from Iraq to his family.

It appears that the jihadis stole his identification and produced the film hoping that no one would notice until it was too late that it was bogus. Well, they got that right - they got their video distributed well before anyone noticed the discrepancies.

HT: EC Marm.

UPDATE:
The video can be found here.

UPDATE:
Rusty has a few questions for the other guys named in the video, and wonders what the various anti-American leftist groups think of being on the blogroll of the terrorists' website. I think they'd be honored and wouldn't think anything of it. Kim sees common cause - all to undermine the war effort against the jihadis.

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