Iranian Fauxtography Update
Charles Johnson
Mon Feb 19, 2007 at 12:42 pm PST • Views: 766
Bob Owens has a closer look at the Winchester ammunition boxes in that Iranian fauxtograph from Fars News: Confederate Yankee: More Fauxtography.
Outside the Wire points out that US military ammo boxes typically look like this, while civilian AK47 ammo boxes look like this.
Dan Riehl notes that we sold large quantities of this Winchester ammo to Afghanistan and Iraq (although probably not in those boxes), so it’s easily available and doesn’t prove American involvement.
And the original post now has nearly 2,000 “diggs” at Digg.com, where you can find lots of raging Bush Derangement Syndrome in the reader comments. I guess it makes me weird, but I find it extremely amusing that the first 23 comments have been “hidden” by their system of user ratings.
UPDATE at 2/19/07 1:05:06 pm:
Israel’s Ynet News has an article: Iran ‘fakes’ US photos.
UPDATE at 2/19/07 5:19:54 pm:
Ace and
» L.A. Times Falls for Iranian Fauxtography?” target=”_blank”>Patterico both seem to think there’s some doubt that Fars News published a manipulated photograph.
The image on the left is the altered photo from Fars News, and the one on the right is the screen capture from Iranian TV published by the LA Times:
It’s the amazing vanishing AK47! (Notice you can see the characteristic open stock and part of the strap in the picture on the left, but the gun itself is … uh … missing.)
There are at least four other sections where the Fars News photo has been altered, but this is probably the most obvious.
Frank says: