[FACT OR FAKE #75] Did A Drone Really Capture ISIS Fighter Having Sex With A Donkey?
The alleged footage from Syria, which cropped up on LiveLeak before making the rounds on Reddit, appear to show some unsavory activity between a man, claimed to be an ISIS fighter, and a highly pixelated animal.
By Sadho Ram — 12 Oct 2014, 03:04 PM — Updated about 10 years ago
Earlier this week, a LiveLeak video appeared online, purporting to show the Islamic State fighters as so primordial and so twisted that they have sex with animals. Several shared it on social media.
The infrared video recording was shared by news outlets from the Sunday World to the Deccan Chronicle, claiming that a "coalition drone has caught an ISIS member having sex with a donkey"
A video, claiming to have been taken by a US surveillance drone in Syria, showing an ISIS militant having intercourse with a donkey has been doing the rounds of late. The footage shows the heat signatures given off by the animal and a man, who appears to be having intercourse with it.
Is this real? How much of it is FACT or FAKE?
The footage shows the heat signatures given off by the animal and a man, who appears to be having intercourse with it
Image via ibtimes.co.inFAKE: While it sure looks like a guy having sex with a donkey, the video, as per its date stamp, was actually shot on 7 June 2011, long before the US military was embroiled in the ISIS campaign
More important, that local time is labeled as "UTC + 4.5," or four and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. That corresponds with the time zone for Kabul, Afghanistan — not Syria.
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So what do we really have here?
A 2011 video that's probably not from a drone of what may be an Afghan dude doing what may be a sexual act with what may be a donkey. Yet this video went stupid viral, and plenty like it have gone viral before. "I remember seeing this as far back as maybe 2007 or so," the military aviation expert tells me of videos purporting to show Taliban and Iraqi insurgents screwing goats and other livestock.
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As Adam Weinstein writes at Gawker, this sort of propagandizing is neither unusual nor new: stuff that "dehumanizes your adversary as bestial," he writes, "is highly shareable on social media."
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