# Palestinians Cheering?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-cheering/82404
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [September 18, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-cheering/82404 "2001-09-18T16:13:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![JustPlainBryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-cheering/82404/1 "2001-09-18T16:13:01Z")

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I heard from a co-worker that there was a story on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) yesterday that stated that the images of Palestinians cheering after the WTC disaster was in fact footage from 1991’s Gulf War. This was then seconded by someone else in the office who said that she saw this on [cnn.com](http://cnn.com) too. Has anyone else seen this story? If this is true then it is pretty disturbing, considering that the news media did this just to make us more angry.

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### Author: ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-cheering/82404/2 "2001-09-18T16:14:10Z")

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You can find the details on [http://www.snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com).

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### Author: ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-cheering/82404/3 "2001-09-18T16:43:20Z")

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I think [this link](http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm) works better.

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### Author: ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2001, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palestinians-cheering/82404/4 "2001-09-18T17:22:26Z")

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I’ll close this thread because there is already an active thread on this subject. Any remaining unanswered questions are directed to the earlier thread, [Dancing Palestinians](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=87075)

bibliophage  
moderator GQ