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--- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:15:19 -0500 To: declan@well.com From: Brian McWilliams <brian@pc-radio.com> Subject: Iraq posts its cut of the Saddam-Rather interview Hi Declan: I thought you & Politech might be interested to know that the Iraq government today posted its version of the Feb. 24 Rather-Saddam interview on its web site. As you may recall, CBS had to rely on Iraq for the tape of the interview. To my knowledge, this is the first "full" version of the interview available on the Internet -- it runs about 94 minutes. I believe it's also the first to include Saddam's full answers in Arabic, rather than English voice-over translations. Unfortunately it's still not an uncut version of the interview, because most of the English translation has been edited out! As a result, the video probably isn't of much use to people who don't speak Arabic. On top of that, the streaming video and audio quality (34 Kbps) are quite poor. But I think the Iraqi version provides an interesting counterpart to the video and transcript published at the CBS site. (For some reason, the CBS transcript does not include any text directly attributed to Saddam. Instead, the transcript consists of Rather's questions along with what the translator said in English on Saddam's behalf.) Iraq's video is contained in three RealMedia files that are linked from http://www.uruklink.net, the home page of the Iraq government. Since Uruklink.net can be flaky, and the admins didn't set up the files to stream properly, I have temporarily mirrored the three files at http://www.pc-radio.com/rather-saddam.html (Fwiw, there was no copyright information in the files' Clip Info area.) Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------