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Subject: [Melungeon] AP Protests Threats to Cameraman
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:16:28 -0400

Kelly,

Check out this story.

Steve

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Wednesday September 12 6:02 PM ET
AP Protests Threats to Cameraman

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Associated Press on Wednesday protested to the
Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) about threats against a
freelance camerman who filmed Palestinians celebrating terror attacks in
the United States.

The videographer, on assignment for Associated Press Television News, was
summoned to a Palestinian Authority security office and told that the
material must not be aired. Calls in the name of the Tanzim militia, an
armed group associated with Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s Fatah
(news - web sites) group, warned him he would be held responsible and
made what he interpreted as threats on his life.

Several Palestinian Authority officials spoke to AP in Jerusalem urging
that the material not be broadcast. Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Arafat's Cabinet
secretary, said the Palestinian Authority ``cannot guarantee the life''
of the cameraman if the footage was broadcast.

The cameraman then requested that the material not be aired. In light of
the danger, APTN has not released the footage of the rally in Nablus.

AP news stories reported worldwide on the demonstration in Nablus and AP
distributed still pictures and video of similar rallies in east
Jerusalem, Lebanon and elsewhere. An AP still photographer did not take
pictures of the Nablus rally after being warned at the scene not to do
so.

The protest by AP Chief of Bureau Dan Perry said, ``I ask the assurances
of the Palestinian Authority that you will protect our journalists from
threats and attempts at intimidation and that no harm would come to our
freelance cameraman from distribution of the film.''

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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:56:08 EDT
Subject: [Melungeon] Palistine footage.

Hi Joe and all,
Well I did see another report on this footage on CSPAN in the middle of
the
night a guest mentioned it and they shut him up and changed the subject
fast
by saying we do not know if this is true. So I am suspecious it is true
Kelly
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