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• 1. Noam Sayin  |  July 24, 2007 at 5:01 pm

  Just storing some research for now, but I suppose this qualifies me as volunteering for this one. So far, the first earliest-dated link I come to is a post by Charles.

  http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22123_Green_Helmet_Admits_Staging_Photos&only

  But I just started researching.

  If it comes down to creating a post on this, I’ll definitely need some help - just look at how bad I hosed the links in assignment #18.

• 2. Noam Sayin  |  July 24, 2007 at 5:54 pm

  And EU Referendum so far has the first known usage outside LGF

  http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html

  From July 31, 2006. Charles’ is from August 15.

  There’s even a website dedicated to the guy at

  http://greenhelmetguy.blogspot.com/

  No activity over there since September 1.

  Rudimentary research so far. But looking further seems to bring up only blogs which refer to the already established phenomenon.

  I’d be remiss if I didn’t include the Wiki entry:

  Salam Daher (born 1967/6), nicknamed the “Green Helmet Guy” or “Green Helmet” by various bloggers, is a Lebanese civil defense worker who became the focus of controversy concerning his role in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrike on Qana on July 30, 2006. He was accused by some bloggers as well as the television news magazine Zapp of the German NDR station and Fox News Channel of “parading” the bodies of the victims for photojournalists, as well as supposedly doing the same in photographs of the 1996 shelling of Qana. A British conservative writer accused him of being a propagandist for the militant Islamist group Hezbollah. Daher has strongly denied the latter allegation, but said he indeed held up victims for photographers because “I wanted people to see who was dying. They said they were killing fighters. They killed children.”

• 3. Noam Sayin  |  August 7, 2007 at 6:50 pm

  I’m trying to come up with a definition for Green Helmut Guy but it’s a little difficult to do without sounding like I’m plagiarizing Wiki.

  Any suggestions on a direction I might want to take?

• 4. Noam Sayin  |  August 22, 2007 at 6:00 pm

  How about this:

  Salam Daher; Lebanese civil defense worker, “peace” activist, film-maker. Birth date reputed to be 1966 or 1967 or June of 1967, per his Wikipedia entry. Daher lived in relative obscurity until the Israel-Hezbollah war in July of 2006, when bloggers began noticing his omnipresence throughout the southern Lebanese cities of Qana and Tyre. Questions began arising as to the veracity of the photos in which Daher appeared, as bloggers noticed that some appeared to be staged. Without a name to go by, blogger Richard at EUReferendum referred to him as “Green Helmut Guy.”

  Let me know what you think, feel free to edit or amend.

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