the video was
broadcast on Lebanese TV, several networks of which naturally have offices in Iraq.
This part of the article may be semi-interesting,
...
The men were notably dressed in the uniforms of Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen, a militia loyal to the ousted Iraqi leader...
If true this does two things, the 2nd more notable but more subtle and likely lost; on the obvious front, it gives Rumsfeld and the chorus of cheerleaders ammo to regurgitate at their next opportunity, but in another sense it also takes away an important propaganda weapon when combined with another statement on this bombing. On the other hand--also on Arabic television, al-Arabiya if I recall correctly, a statement of the Iraqi Islamic National Resistance Movement denied that they or any part of the Iraqi resistance could have been involved in, and condemned, the UN bombing.
Taken at face value, between that IINRM statement and this newer statement on LBCI, there is revealed the distinct divisions and differences between the active movements and tendencies; on the one hand, the Iraqi anti-colonial resistance movement(s) fighting the US/UK occupiers, and distinctly so on the other hand the so-called "Saddam loyalists" that are the lightning rod for Rumsfeld's propaganda.
Given that it was revealed that the official Iraqi state-military was bought off before the "Coalition" stormed Baghdad, the possibility of cooperation between the proven-
national traitors of the "regime loyalists" and the occupation forces is not out of the question. I don't wish to delve too deep into such a line of suspicion, but there would be clear motive:--this bombing will only send remaining UN forces into the lap of the Coalition Provisional Authority(CPA)/occupation forces, and curbing any potential independent streak of the UN would be top priority for the CPA. Using traitorous agents of the corrupt and bought off "old regime" would give some level of deniability to the real patrons and the only benefactors of the act.
Not that any of this will ever be noticed..
(on edit: this latest thread/story goes to confirm my concluding suspicion, not exactly so but in a general sense)--
BAGHDAD, Aug. 23 -- U.S.-led occupation authorities have begun a covert campaign to recruit and train agents with the once-dreaded Iraqi intelligence service to help identify resistance to American forces here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=80582http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37331-2003Aug23.html