A video of the Iraq conflict that depicts troops detonating a roadside bomb in a controlled explosion is being censored by Google's video service in the US.
The rather boring 17-second video presents stateside viewers with an error message, claiming they are not authorized to view the video. The video shows nothing but an explosion, from quite a distance, followed a distant cloud of smoke.
Google have no reason to censor the video due to extreme content, after all the search engine giant was recently criticised for the recent string of "fight club" video nasties found on the Google Video service.
Another example of the media hiding the true nature of the war? The jury's out on that one for now.
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View: Google's message to US viewers
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