[Paul Victorey]

Actually, the footage almost MUST be fake.

* The second plane hit the WTC at 9:03 AM. This is the first indication that this is part of a terrorist attack, and so this is the first chance anyone has to see the news on TV.

* 9:03 AM in New York works out to be 6:03 PM in some of the Middle East, and 5:03 PM in other parts.

* If the footage was taken at the same longitude as Islamabad, it would be approximately 12 minutes until sunset when the second plane hit. If the footage was taken at the same longitude as Jerusalem, it would be about 2.5 hours until sunset when the second plane hit.

* I am not sure when the broadcasting of the tragedy on CNN began, but it is reasonable to assume that CNN takes at least a little time to get news on the air, and that it also takes a large group of people a certain amount of time for this information to become known by a large number of people. And, the early reports of the tragedy were inaccurate, it was only when multiple crashes happened that it even began being considered terrorism. So any celebration would probably occur, at soonest, an hour after the second plane hits -- that gives CNN the time to broadcast to the world that there's been a terrorist attack, and gives the Arabs the time to hear about it.

So, the footage, if genuine, would HAVE to be in the very late evening, even assuming that the footage was far enough west, and people responded quickly enough to get their cheering done in the 1 hour time frame that would be between the news of the attack and sunset. The footage appears to be midday, which would mean it MUST have been taken before the planes hit the WTC at all. The footage could not possibly have been from Afghanistan nor any of the eastern parts of the Middle East, and even assuming it was from the west leaves only the narrowest window of opportunity, and the lighting of the footage appears not to be consistent with the time window that it could have been shot in.