This was recorded during air strikes on Baghdad at one evening in March 2003. The transmission evidently was aired live, as you can clearly hear the anti-air gun fire from outside the building. The sound waves are strong enough to shake the curtain behind the map and finally the map itself.
You can see the Iraqi desinformation minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf sitting on the right, looking very unpleased when the camera spotlight shuts down again.
The whole scene seems quite unreal and more like a comedy movie scene.
I recorded this on the Iraqi (governmental) TV program in the first days after hostilities started 20th March 2003. Iraq TV transmissions came to an end in the forthcoming days. Unfortunately I did not record tons of stuff, what I could and should have done. Iraq TV was a free to air program, receivable across Europe via Hotbird satellite @ 13°E.
Unfortunately the picture quality is very bad. Original recording took place on a VHS cassette (as the white horizontal errors tell you), then transfered to a DVD recorder's hard disk, then burned to DVD, now ripped to mpg and finally uploaded 8 years after first recording.
