You have no idea what you saw -- clips like that are often propaganda or just crap. Big news sites like Drudge would post fringe nonsense for cheap hits.

When Iraq invaded Kuwait, the NY Times was running stories about babies being tossed from incubators directly lifted from WWI accounts of the Hun.

I was working in a network operations center at the time, listening to radio and seeing CNN 18 hours a day for weeks post 9/11. There were all sorts of bullshit stories, from foiled plots against facilities to whatever else that made it broadcast. People were jumpy and craving information.