Salam Daher

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Green Helmet Guy seen instructing and directing journalists at Qana. From Zapp

Green Helmet aka Green Helmet Guy (alternatively referred to by AP as Salam Daher and Abu Shadi Jradi) is the nickname given to a figure that appears in many different photographs of the 2006 Qana airstrike behaving as both a rescue worker and a film auteur. According to accusations made by many bloggers, this rescue worker appears in many photographs to be parading the victims for photojournalists, as well as appearing in many photographs of the 1996 shelling of Qana.

In a July 30, 2006, Zapp report on the German television station NDR, Green Helmet is shown deliberately staging dramatic footage. he gives orders to a cameraman and clears away extras as a dead child's body is removed from an ambulance, dropped onto a gurney, and loaded into the ambulance a second time.

Daher's supporters in the press claim that he is a civil defense worker from Tyre. His detractors believe that he is an official of Hezbollah in charge of propaganda.

In a supportive and controversial Associated Press report by Kathy Gannon dated Aug. 11, 2006, Daher is presented posing in a blue helmet and body armor, the color usually worn by journalists. He was reported to have been slightly injured by shrapnel during an Israeli raid on Tyre on August 13, 2006. An AFP report of the incident stated that Daher is "the chief of the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre." It didn't provide the color of his helmet.

See also

• 2006 Qana airstrike conspiracy theories
• Adnan Hajj
• Pallywood

External Links

• YouTube video of Zapp report
• Yahoo reports Daher injured
• 'Green Helmet' helps rescue the wounded - Associated Press article by Kathy Gannon profiling Salam Daher