AP Still Defending “Green Helmet”

The AP attempts to whip up sympathy for the man who is being called "Green Helmet". This is the Lebanese man caught on tape staging photos and abusing a dead child for propaganda purposes. Which he admits doing in this article.

Salam Daher, dubbed the Green Helmet for the color of his civil defense headgear, said he was hit by debris Sunday when a bomb or missile fell on a building while he was helping to battle a fire at a gas station in the port city of Tyre.

"I fell over when the bomb hit, and I got some scratches from debris that flew up on my face," he said.

The 20-year veteran civil defense worker said he shows dead children to photographers to make clear that Israeli airstrikes killed young Lebanese during the monthlong conflict. Some Internet bloggers have accused him of setting up photos and of treating the dead insensitively.

In one photograph, taken after an Israeli airstrike hit a building in the village of Qana, Daher held a dead infant over his head. The boy's blue pacifier was pinned to his nightshirt.

"I did hold the baby up, but I was saying 'look at who the Israelis are killing. They are children,'" Daher said. "These are not fighters. They have no guns. They are children, civilians they are killing.' "

He said he had no regrets and he made no apologies. "I wanted people to see who was dying. They said they were killing fighters. They killed children."

Kathy Gannon appears to be the assigned defender of "Green Helmet" for the AP as this is her second article on the man. Her first was here. The Western media is completely unable to see the moral implications of what it is doing at this point. This latest piece demonstrates that quite clearly. Gannon acknowledges the video exists (only on one site, mind you. Never mind that it is all over the web) and reports that the subject of the article admits to the behavior he is being criticized for.

Then she tries to get readers to feel sorry for the guy.

I feel sorry for her. And for all of us.

UPDATE: Don't miss Rick's letter to the AP. Nobody has answered him yet. I'm betting they won't either.

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  By K T Cat, August 16, 2006 @ 10:00 am

  The media is just commiting suicide. They still haven’t figured out that the Internet blows their cover.

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