BEIRUT -- Yesterday I went on a media tour of Harat Hreik, one of the southern suburbs with Hossein Nabulsi, spokesman for Hezbollah. The devastation of that neighborhood is total. It's gone. I'm posting a video I shot of Nabulsi as we stumbled through the rubble in a kind of roving press conference. Anyone know who was that guy was who kept pushing Nabulsi on Hezbollah "infiltrating" itself into civilian population?
Anyway, I'll just let Nabulsi speak for himself in this video. And I screwed up and put "June 20" on the video instead of "July 20." I'm going to leave it because I would have to re-encode the whole video and upload it, which takes forever, and I'm short on time and bandwidth. I regret the screwup.
A Flickr set is available and I will be updating it as I go, so feel free to subscribe to its RSS feed. (By the way, can Windows users see this movie?)
You’ve accidentally put “June 20” instead of “July 20” on the title screen of the video.
Yes - the video played automatically in the page in my windows machine.
Great video Chris. I am so grateful for your reports. Almost, in my braver self, wish I was still there to be seeing myself. Lebanese and Lebanese ex-pats will be cut off when these evacuations get done (if they do) so your reporting will be that much more important. Hope TIME is keeping you fed!
Chris, I have both an OS X box and a Windows box. The video plays on OS X, but not on Windows — trying both Firefox and I.E.
I can see the video fine, on WinXP Pro via Firefox browser.
I’m running windows and Firefox. Worked like a charm.
Anyone on Windows who can’t see it should install QuickTime — then it should work.
(On Linux, you’ll need to install the vlc or mplayer plugin. If one plays back the video with glitches or doesn’t work at all, try the other.)
Civil War?
Christopher,
This might be a story to get out in front of, and it could use a real journalist following it up:
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2006/07/signs-of-things-to-come-in-lebanon.html
“Signs of things to come in Lebanon. A source in Beirut just told me that there were many cases of friction and conflict between Shi`ite refugees from South Lebanon and people in Sunni areas and Druze areas. The Army had to intervene in several cases to limit the damage.”
Use windows apple products are crap
The sad thing is that you have been in the middle of two horrible war zones and get a better connection than I safely snuggled into my rural Western Massachusetts home. I depend on a colony of ants running in circles to power my service. Or so it seems. The little bit that I can get to download looks pretty interesting. (on Safire, OS X)
Couldn’t view video (but could hear it) a few hours ago on my intel mac, now i can both see and hear it.
I’m in prague right now. Just walked past the Israeli embassy and the American embassy, things are tense.
my landlord is an american/Indian/Kenyan he thinks this sucks. That GWB is supporting the aggression and that the Muslim people as a group are going to go apes—t over this.
Hope he is wrong
You need the latest Quicktime in order to view this… at least in Firefox.
Can’t see it on my screen (Windows, here).
Video worked for me-Windows xp and Firefox with quicktime. Fascinating footage- is it me or did the spokesman seem just a trifle strident? OK, dumb Canadian question- who is it asking about infiltration?
Plays fine (under Windows XP Pro) in MSIE6 with QuickTime 7.0.3 plugin.
The guy who kept pushing on Hizbollah “infiltrating” itself into the civilian population is Greg Palkot of Fox News.
This is being heard a lot on all of the cable news stations…Israel regrets having to kill Lebanese civilians but it’s all Hezbollah’s fault for using women and children as a cover for their rockets.
i can hear but not see the video. I get some pop-up about MIME and Quick Time.
I’m using Windows XP, but version 6.5.2 of Quick Time. Will upgrade later & try to watch.