A British C-130 plane was apparently shot down by a terrorist known as the Green Brigade yesterday, killing ten British soldiers. A video has surfaced and was aired on Al Jazeera.

The video was issued by the “Green Brigade,” a previously unknown arm of an Iraqi militant group — and its authenticity could not be confirmed.

It showed a finger pressing a button on a white box with wires, and then images of two missiles or rockets flying up into the air. The video did not show any impact with a plane.

Instead, it cut to footage of people in street clothes walking through a plane’s wreckage burning on the ground. It was not immediately possible to determine if the wreckage was that of the crashed C-130.

Because of the lack of footage showing the actual explosion from the rockets hitting the plane, it has yet to be determined if in fact these terrorists actually shot down the plane or just happened to be in the area. They could have very well tried to hit the plane, causing the pilot to try to dodge the rockets which in turn brought the plane down. The British military is investigating the incident.

While the Associated Press believed the Green Brigade is a “previously unknown arm of an Iraqi militant group,” they fail yet again to do their homework. The Green Brigade, if you recall, was the group that held four Italian hostages and murdered one of them. The failure of media organizations to do their proper homework when writing a story never ceases to amaze me.

Both Backcountry Conservative and The Jawa Report show sources indicating another terrorist group, Ansar al-Islam, shot down the plane. As with almost every terrorist act that garners world-wide attention, several groups claim credit for the attack. Based upon the footage however, there is no way to determine if the plane was shot down or just crashed.

The video can be downloaded at Ogrish. As noted previously, all the video shows is two rockets being fired and then the wreckage of the plane. It would not be the first time a terrorist group made a claim of an attack that turned out to be false. This is their form of propoganda.