I think most of you know the video hosting service
YouTube. Recently, I discovered that YouTube also contains a number of pretty interesting videos regarding the war in Iraq, especially when it's about pro-insurgency propaganda. "
Juba" is the keyword. Juba is a propaganda figure, Iraq war's "
Colonel Tomb", a mythical sniper who claims to have shot over 150 American soldiers.
YouTube contains a number of videos showing how American soldiers are shot by snipers, like (warning, graphic scenes ahead!)
this one,
this one,
this one,
this one,
this one,
this one or
this one. All of these videos are quite interesting, as they show how effective a single sniper can be against the crew of a humvee, and that they have basically no chance to detect and combat the sniper. And most of these videos are designed in a typical "propaganda video" fashion, with a pretty unique background music (all I understand from the lyrics is "allahu akhbar"...). Although quite brutal in what they show, definitely an important documentation of the other side of the war, the stuff that you usually won't see on CNN.
Update: for my German-speaking readers, Google Video hosts
a short report from Spiegel TV about Juba.