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Source: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=70070b46-f288-4297-b687-02e45d098c53
All the Lies that Are Fit to Print
[Ottawa Citizen] David Warren - Watching television over the last eight years, you will have seen the clip, probably many times, of a Palestinian man and boy cowering by a wall. Then suddenly the boy is shown dead in his father's arms. The voice-over explains that he was picked off by an Israeli marksman. In most Muslim countries it continues to be shown, endlessly. Hundreds of schools throughout that world have been named after the child, Muhammad al-Dura, and the Arab League declared Oct. 1 to be "Al-Dura Day." The film was shot by a Palestinian cameraman. Charles Enderlin, the French news correspondent who provided the voice-over, was not in Gaza at the time. When a formal Israeli investigation showed that it had not been physically possible for any Israeli soldier to have shot the boy, it was hardly reported. Several independent investigations confirming the Israeli finding were similarly ignored.