faked photos,
and faked quotes.

Every word, every picture, every report by the media is a lie. They (the media) are the enemy and its time they start being treated as such.

STOP ISLAMIFESTATION NOW

Lies, Lies and more lies

an HONOR killing...was she abused and ready to tell? paleos are sick $%^%s...

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Kudos, Charles.

Nat'l
Media
Establishment

¡El enemigo!

apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike

...or perhaps some murderers needed some fresh flesh to display...and some news agencies needed to keep their income streams flowing.

Charles thank you for having the decency to cover the Childs injuries, and face.

The news media sure as hell wont.

How do you die from a fall on a swing? Was she like 10 feet high from the ground or something?
Something is fishy here.

Wouldn't shock me if Hamas had her killed for the propaganda value.

Palis need to learn to love their kids more than they hate Jews. But since that'll never happen I say Angelina Jolie adopts 'em.

More and yet more propaganda with the help of the useful idiots. Cold War tactics have never gone away - they've just refocused.

Ya know - since I started reading and contributing to this blog (with all the diverse information you good folks provide) I have stopped watching TV altogether (never thought I'd be saying THAT!).

Thanks folks for de-programming me!

Slightly OT

Lets see...

12 cell phones found + 11,000 dollars found + 11 students were missing =

The ring leaders phone, plus 11 phones for the missing students plus a thousand dollars each to purchase plane tickets.

Could this have been a USA team connected to the plot to blow up planes?

Conspiracy theory... maybe, maybe not?

Walter in Golden, Co.

Doesn't the fact that AP issued a correction show that the reuters fauxtography scandal has had an effect? I'll admit that the retraction never gets the coverage that the initial lie gets, but now they know they're being watched and will get called on the lies.

AP: All lies all the time, any questions?

Probably an honour killing. 5 years old? That's almost legal marriage age under Islam.

Can we rename the MSM the Nazi media?

And of course "I'm Shocked, Shocked I tell ya'"

Thursday, doctors said that the 5-year-old Palestinian girl initially believed to have been killed by an Israeli military strike Wednesday apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing

Yeah, but a Jew was pushing her, so it's the "same difference"*.

Or maybe it was Pat Benatar.

* Users of the moronic phrase "same difference" (when they really mean "same thing") shall henceforth be thrown underneath the wheels of a moving bus ("thrown under the bus").

Thus spake King J-damn.

'fall from a swing'?

looks more like she met an rpg courtesy of Hamas.

I think we all could save a lot of time and effort by making of a list of only those photos that aren't fake.

#9

Palestinian swings probably don't meet OSHA specs. . .but you're right, even the "swing" story is fishy.

Someone should put up an internet archive dedicated to this sort of Arab/victimist propaganda. (Or is that simply LGF?).

Does anyone else notice the smirk on the fat Bobsey twin on the left, and the totally unconcerned looks of the individuals in the background (not to mention the fact that one of them is pointing a video camera at the photographer of the image above?)

Same shit, different day.

I guess all the money given to these savages to provide safe playgrounds for children was instead turned into ammunition.

BTW, are there any photos coming out of the ME that are legitimate?

You'd think by now some internal memo would have gone out telling them to be more careful when staging their photos.

I hate the media. They are as guilty as the terrorists.

...apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike.

Was the swing made by Halliburton?

religion of exploitation of dead children

RoEoDC

Let's be clear here. The photos aren't fake. The girl died. However, the photo was staged and the caption was completely wrong as to the cause of death. Israel had nothing to do with the death.

But, as Charles noted, none of that matters since the image trumps all.

demonstrations like these?

Great picture of Ahmadinejad the Nazi

Not my blog, but a funny picture

"The Palis who cried WOLF"

Its not that I dont care, its just I dont trust one fucking word they say.

#11 Walter L Newton

I'm not really into conspiracies - but you just may be on to something there sir!

I am so happy to see that the truth is finally coming out with regards to the images that are sent around the world to sway opinion in favor of the Palis, Hezbos, etc...

Thank you Charles and all of the other dedicated Lizards who are on top of this and are unrelating in exposing the lies of the MSM and Arab Propagandists!

So? If it wasn't a Zionist bomb, it was a Zionist swingset.

The Jews control the playground equipment industry, you know.

Playground injured are always accompanied to the hospital by machine gun-toting thugs, where morgue fauxtographers can have at them.

Shame on the AP TERRORAZZI!

Shame.

Stop insulting our intelligence, the game is over.

oh, as an afterthought,

may ALL the children of these animals fall from swings in a similar manner.

#21 zulubaby 8/10/2006 12:23PM PDT

I hate the media. They are as guilty as the terrorists.

OT but great quote from someone in power who gets it:

Britain is living through its most threatening time since the second world war, John Reid, the home secretary, warned today.
...
He also called for a "Darwinian" approach to the legal system, saying that it must be "responsive to change" in order to protect the nation against terrorism.
Mr Reid said: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

The Constitution is not a suicide pact
(no, he didn't say that, he's British)

Of course it's still Israel's fault don't you know. They've bottled them up in those barren, rocky ghettos with no soft, grassy playgrounds, Why if it wasn't for the dirty jooos her fall would have resulted a little scratch on the forehead,

Good God...You expose one filthy terrorist lie and they throw two more at you. You expose two and they throw four..I can't tell you how much I appreciate those with the time, energy and technical abilities to keep up with all this propoganda.

Sad and tragic for the family. How brutal and disgusting for the PA to use this as a propaganda opportunity. Sick, sick, sick.

Even through the blurring, I can tell that that is one hell of a head wound (a swing? really?).

And after reading this book, "Brulee Vive," (don't know if anyone else here has read it) and the description in it of how girl children are routinely treated in "Palestine" I'm cynical enough at this point to believe this kid was done in on purpose. Whatever the case, I'm guessing this child is probably more cherished in death than she was in life.

# 31 Liz Ard

I don't wish that on anyone's children. I wish they could be taken away from their brainwashed elders and raised as normal human beings, though.

This is actually a portrait of "Palestine". More armed gunman than doctors in a HOSPITAL.

#19 looking closely:

Does anyone else notice the smirk on the fat Bobsey twin on the left, and the totally unconcerned looks of the individuals in the background (not to mention the fact that one of them is pointing a video camera at the photographer of the image above?)

I was thinking the same thing ... I really don't think I see any REAL grief in that photo.

apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike.

But wait! Maybe it was an Israeli-made swing.

/AP

I think it was Krauthammer who said (and I'm loosely paraphrasing) the difference between the Israelis and the savages is that when a Muslim child is killed we all weep, but when an Isaeli child is killed, the Islamonazis celebrate.

It may have been the words of someone else, but I heard him mention this on FNC the other night.

Good news
They found three more missing Egyptian students.
Two of them were in Baltimore

I live in Baltimore

# 31 Liz Ard

YOu should retract that statement dude.

"Fell from a swing!?" You kidding me, or what?

Just another day at the playground in Gaza, sez the MSM

Did anybody else notice the creepy smiles on the faces of the two armed goons? Particularly the one who is looking at the poor dead child?

Apparently they haven't gotten the message that Charles has busted their propaganda. Tactics will change, but we will be watching.

Is the big guy from hamas, just to the right of the shrieker, smiling?

Meanwhile, Green Helmet's true identity is finally uncovered!

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Good news
They found three more missing Egyptian students.
Two of them were in Baltimore

I live in Baltimore

On Thursday, doctors said that the 5-year-old Palestinian girl initially believed to have been killed by an Israeli military strike Wednesday apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike.

Good doctors, those Palestinians. Photo doctors.

On Thursday, doctors said lied that the 5-year-old Palestinian girl initially believed to have been was killed by an Israeli military strike Wednesday. The truth is that we swallow anything hook line a sinker that makes Jews look like baby killers.

Apparently she died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a Jew swing so everything in the same area shortly before the strike. So, contrary to previous reports, the Jews haven't taken away ALL surviving children's fun...Yet.

46 Exactly...Another obviously staged photo by Al-AP

The MSM is gonna learn a hard, hard lesson...

#46 amyc

THey look at it as fodder for their propaganda machine.

So far today we've see 2 images of dead children being used solely for the purpose of promoting a religion's death march over humanity. How do you change a mindset such as that? Is it even possible?

#33, #44,

no I will not retract.

These animals want their childrent to die in order to kill jews/infidels. I would rather they die in banal accidents than as splodeydopes in a Sbarro's.

Correct me if I am wrong.

I just love the AP quote :
"...believed to be killed...".

Notice how they use the weaselly passive form of the verb "believe"- well now, "believed" by just whom? The Palis?

They certainly didn't believe it, since they staged the show for the benefit of their AP enablers, and they obviously knew she wasn't killed by an Israeli airstrike.

But the AP, doesn't want to say "We believed it" - as in, we are so gullible we eat all their propaganda. Of course, the other two possibilities are a) the AP doesn't care about the truth one way or the other or
b) the AP collaborates directly in the whole phony spectacle.

Unbelievable. Does the media even bother to check the veracity of these claims or are they just accepted as fact, since it paints the Israelis as cold-blooded killers? Apparently it's too much to ask for the media to, ya know, actually do their job. Un-freaking-believable.

Charles is exactly right, the photo and erroneous caption will be used for propaganda purposes, with the correction conveniently ignored.

I'm really getting tired of looking at pictures of dead kids.

OT,

Reuters ADRs continue their post-fauxtography scandal slide today on the Nasdaq, currently down .43 per share in heavy trading.

#31 Liz Ard

may ALL the children of these animals fall from swings in a similar manner

Please, leave the hate speech to the Kos Kidz. Do not let your anger at the perpetrators of terror spread to innocent children. Whatever they are, however they test us, we must retain our sense of decency.

That is a pretty powerful image, I've no doubt that the musLLLim ghouls will use it at their "peace" rallies. Just like the famous "napalm girl" or vietcong execution photos from the Vietnam War. Of course Eddie Adams, who toke the execution photo, regretted doing so because it helped the Vietcong propaganda. Can't say the smae thing about today's fauxtojournalists.

It's obvious that it was a swingset made by the Zionists, and it was built for the sole purpose of dumping lebanese kids on their head.

Allahu Ackbar! Death to America! Freebird! Oh sorry, got excited...

55 Liz

You should reconsider...dont be so stubborn

no matter who, what or where, a child is always an innocent victim

OT This terror plot is fake and really was a Rove plot to make sure gas prices stay down the next few months.

Oil prices fall on concerns about demand
Reported foiled terror plot could dampen travel, consumer confidence

.

link

#60 Miss Crabtree

I am SPECIFICALLY referring to those animals who would directly sacrifice their children in the name of jihad.

Fuck em.

apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike

How high off the ground was the swing?

Yes, BUT WHO MADE THE SWING?

The jooos!

Just more of the same al-Reuter's and MSM spin.

If they don't stop soon, there will be a lot of their people out of work because nobody will be buying their publications except the members of the RoP.

Is it just me or does it look like the guy on the left, in the blue and white shirt is smiling?

#60 Miss Crabtree

I am SPECIFICALLY referring to those animals who would directly sacrifice their children in the name of jihad.

Fuck em.

Love the guy on the far right. "Please, bring the corpse this way, to the camera. We're so happy you could make it."

That looks like nice new red shellac on their AKs too. They must be from the latest batch of guns bought with EUSSR funds. Funny how they're strapped for everything except weapons, uniforms, and cameras, huh?

37 french name Is that book available in English?

I believing the honor killing theory. Maybe she refused to give her uncle a drink?

Sad.

#30 NoSubmission

Terrorazzi

I love it!

Is that new? I've never seen that term before. Can I suggest adding it to the LGF dictionary? Here's a starter definition, to be revised as necessary:

Members of the media who photoshop pictures or stage photo opportunities to promote a terrorist viewpoint, namely Hezbollah, Hamas, or any other similar group.

Out of line, Liz Ard.

But wait! Maybe it was an Israeli-made swing.

or Caterpillar...

Animals. All of them. Lying Animals!

I've been offline most of today dealing with other stuff, but I have to admit that the number of images faked, staged, or misrepresented just continues to stun me. Hezballah should be training the Republicans on media coverage, but not (of course) technique. I've never seen a media blitz work so well.

Granted, the media would never want to represent the republican viewpoint so well, but the methodology should be worthy of replicating.

#72 amyc

Yep - called "Burned Alive" by Souad (a one-name author; pseudonym I believe) and available on Amazon. Can't account for the veracity of the translation as I read the French version. I hope the text, which was pretty brutal, didn't get watered down in translation.

OT:
Another one of the Egyptian students caught. This one was caught at O'Hare causing a commotion when the Delta counter agent questioned his ticketing, which had him leaving from NYC to Bozeman. Cops came over, ran his name, and lo and behold - he shows up on the list. That means that there are about 5 still on the lamb.

I'm beginning to wonder if there is a thriving "rent-a-body" industry fast becoming popular (think of the franchising opportunities in Europe a few years from now!) in Lebanon.

If not, are they shelling out Iranin and Syrian funds to the parents, making the deal sweeter to ante up a child for the sake of taking on the Americans (and the western culture as a whole)? They already sentence their children to die and are very happy about it, so this is just another venue of death of the offspring at the alter of hate.

I'm beginning to wonder if there is a thriving "rent-a-body" industry fast becoming popular (think of the franchising opportunities in Europe a few years from now!) in Lebanon.

If not, are they shelling out Iranin and Syrian funds to the parents, making the deal sweeter to ante up a child for the sake of taking on the Americans (and the western culture as a whole)? They already sentence their children to die and are very happy about it, so this is just another venue of death of the offspring at the alter of hate.

If FOX News was smart. They would bring this all to light (pictures) and watch the other news services go nuts!

#74 schlagerman

Yup, I made it up. Love the English language! So wonderfully expressive and flexible I could kiss it.

Feel free to spread it around.

#26 Kragar (proud to be kafir) 8/10/2006 12:25PM PDT
"The Palis who cried WOLF"

Its not that I dont care, its just I dont trust one fucking word they say.

I'm afraid that at this point I don't care - mostly because I no longer beleve them.

Once I believed these children died because their parents so love to see their children accidently killed by the Israelis they intentionally put them in harms way.

Anymore I'm beginning to believe they may not be above actually killing their own children for the photo-op.

Too much of a scretch? If these people are so willing to strap a bomb on their children, why is it such a leap that they would kill their own children, go out and find a photographer, all for the sake of furthering their cause - namely, to vilify the Israelis.

After all, ultimately the child would go to heaven because he/she would be doing their part (providing a bloody corpse photo-op) to glorify al-la-la.

Why are there four armed men in that photo?

Where else in the world would you go to a hospital and find four men armed with automatic weapons amidst a crowd of spectators while video and still cameras photograph a "grieving" father seeking care for his greiviously wounded daughter?

Wow, that just stinks!

A fall from a swing?!? What did she land on - concrete?

Our two-year-old is just getting the hang of swinging on the "big girl" swing. I was pushing her one day, in the backyard, when she let go of the chains. She went forward, and did a face plant in the grass. Thank goodness she wasn't hurt (it freaked her out), but I have to admit it was America's Funniest Videos-funny.

Don't wish death on the children... pray that they grow up to reject the death cult they are being brought up in and instead become part of the next generation of infidels!

Main Stream Media = MSM = Moronic Shouting Moonbats

Quite a fall. "Doctors" said it was a fall. The swing must have been perched on the edge of a cliff... I'm just sayin', I know they're liars but this is less convincing than the other ones.

NRO's Andrew Stuttaford dhimmi update...

From the Corner at [Link: www.nationalreview.com...]

Hat-tip: the Belgravia Dispatch, which is currently a must-read. I don't agree with all that Greg there has to say, but with his focus firmly on the wider struggle with Islamic extremism, he makes the point that has to be made: "it is manifestly clear ...that every passing day the Israeli-Lebanese conflict rages on will continue to cause tremendous harm to our national interest." Very true.

Always remember that enemies will attempt to "flank" you from the left AND the right!

#22 mazeman

Was the swing made by Halliburton?

no, but the plastic polymers the seat was made of was developed by monsanto in '58.

MURERERS!

speaking of, this jumped out at me:
"...apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike."

i don't understan, then why is she being marched through the streets for journalists covering the war and accompanied by armed men?

did...did they murder this girl? so they could show a body to photographers?

fake photos = fake religion

AP is writing copy that looks like Hezbollah press releases.

Hezbollah volunteers fill food trays with rice before delivering them to some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees now living in schools across the capital, at a makeshift Hezbollah-run kitchen in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday Aug. 10, 2006. Even now, despite crippling Israeli airstrikes that have destroyed most of Hezbollah offices across the country, the guerrilla group is actively assisting in relief efforts. Hezbollah runs a sophisticated network of schools, clinics and social services deeply rooted in the Shiite Muslim community.

Did anyone catch the guy on the left in the blue and white shirt, grey pants, he has some type of knife holder on his left ankle. And that's casual lol

#58, Ringo The Gringo

Man, I know what you mean. It's depressing.

How about a song?

(Caution: audio file link)

#88 Dar ul Harb 8/10/2006 01:01PM PDT
Don't wish death on the children... pray that they grow up to reject the death cult they are being brought up in and instead become part of the next generation of infidels!

With all due respect, I don't know how in the world that could ever happen. They are so thoroughly brainwashed by the time they can strap a bomb on I don't see any hope for them.

Another case can be made that the only hope these people ever had was when they began to emigrate to the western parts of the world. Every other group, including asians, have assimilated. Not so, these people.

We can all see how well they are integrating into the societies of the Netherlands, France, England, Australia, HERE!

I'm afraid I don't share your optimism.

Just when you thought the madness could not get any madder ...

Christian Priest (sic) assisted Al-Qaeda suspect

News from Deutsche Presse-Agentur via Expatica states that a Catholic chaplain in a prison has been accused during a trial of giving material assistance to an Al Qaeda suspect who was an inmate at Wuppertal jail, east of Cologne.

The prisoner is Mohammed Ibrahim K., one of three Muslims who were indicted in December on charges of being members of, or supporting, al-Qaeda. They are also said to have raised funds for suicide bombings in Iraq.

Believed to be a Syrian national, Ibrahim Mohamed K lived in Mainz, and was accused of being a member of Al Qaeda. It is alleged that he recruited the two others, Palestinian brothers, to become members. He had attempted unsuccessfully to purchase nuclear material for a radiological dispersal device, or "dirty bomb", it is alleged. He is said to have been part of the command structure of al-Qaeda, and to have been in contact with bin Laden. He fought US troops in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2002.

Full story

This renegade priest has betrayed his calling. He should be unfrocked.

Back to MEDIC mode. I've done many rescues of kids, from swings, car wrecks, falls and on.
But because I can't see her face I have know idea how she landed, but the cloth she is last seen in makes me wonder? It has blood all over the place yet none of it is on the person who is carrying her.

You can also see in the picture that there is a few camera crews there. Were they waiting from someone to show up, or told to wait and someone would. Can we set up again!

#61 Beerdrinking_victorymonkey:

Note on the Napalmed Girl. I saw the uncropped version in 1987...before digital photos and computer enhancing. It was at a media conference at the Naval War College.

The cropping cut about a third of the right side off the original framing, where there were three (yep, count 'em now, kiddies!) non-asian males, all taking pictures of her. No one was reaching for bandages, etc...

It's not about being a human, and helping a horribly burned child, it's about the accolades of the profession.

So, just wonder how we'd have thought of that picture if we all knew first aid was not the thought of the media?

Poor little girl.

How the hell can these people use such a tragic accident for spreading hate and propaganda?

Very sad.

82 Curt,

I'm beginning to wonder if there is a thriving "rent-a-body" industry fast becoming popular (think of the franchising opportunities in Europe a few years from now!) in Lebanon.

I smell a business opportunity!

Thanks folks, I'm here all week. Try the veal!

My first reaction is to say:

"Un-f#$%ing-believable!"

But I happen to believe words do in fact have meaning. So my more considered reaction is to say:

"What's new?"

There is some good news here:

On Thursday, doctors said that the 5-year-old Palestinian girl initially believed to have been killed by an Israeli military strike Wednesday apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike.

At least in this case, the doctors in Gaza were willing to stand up and state the truth. And I'll bet they were under a lot of pressure not to correct the record since it made the case that the Israelis didn't "murder" this Palestinian child.

she probably fell off of the swing - - right after the bullet fired from some psychotic fauxto shoot up the street ripped her face off...

#75 DuH

not PC, indeed.

Let's not forget what they aspire to.

If it was even a remote possibility that those kids could be brought up in a healthy environment, I'd reconsider.

As it is, euthanasia by swing is ok by me.

She suffered a head injury like that while playing on a swing?

More likely she was shot in the head by some Arab moron who was playing with his gun.

We'll never get the real truth from AP. Their original lie has already traveled the globe and that's the way they like it.

Maybe I'm looking into things too much... but I noticed that the man holding her is wearing a rubber glove. Now, if he were her father or another family member, why would he be carrying her in (or out) wearing rubber gloves? If the child was in a playground accident, and there was no glove, I would presume that the man carrying her was her anguished father.

If, on the other hand, he's a doctor (which is what I would think after seeing the glove), why would he be seen screaming in torment and parading a child that was ostensibly hurt falling off of a swing in front of cameras?

Is something not adding up here?

Evil.
Evil.
Evil.

And the media are just as sick for spreading it around either exacerbated or unadulterated.

I remember asking my father how people could let something like the Holocaust happen after he told me about what Hitler had written in Mein Kampf. He told me that the people in academia, politics, and media ("elites", I guess...) who should have been reading and questioning, and calling attention to what Hitler was doing didn't.

At the time, I couldn't understand what he meant - couldn't fathom people glossing over such obvious hatred.

Now I see. It's all too easy to make the quick buck and slink on by; "I'm just the messenger". I think we are further along in some ways this time around - but, still - it's all to close for comfort.

Thank you Mr. Footballs for helping us see around those who just want to play along with the evil.

La Mauvaise New Yorkaise (#108),

Is something not adding up here?

Everything works if you add "staged" to the equation.

I so hate to see these graphic pictures here.

re: "Back to MEDIC mode" - Looks to me like she fell and broke her neck and also sustained superficial head injuries which bleed like crazy if she didn't die right away (also common with neck injuries). This is entirely possible from a swingset accident if the swingset was improperly mounted on a hard surface or she landed on an object underneath the swing such as a tricycle.

I think the speedy AP retraction is likely a symptom of AP sweating bullets over what happened at Reuters and trying to avoid same. As for the Paleos-disgusting pigs. I think the adults in the background with the happy fasces are thinking "Oh, is this going to make a great propaganda shot for the press."

Liz Ard totally out of line and completely uncalled for comments. Honestly, we have enough hate in the world without wishing children dead.

People died, Pallies lied.

Palindrome: AP=PA

I don't know where you found the AP "correction" - still uncorrected when I pop it up.

Liz Ard shoul be kickbanned for that statement.

#82

I'm beginning to wonder if there is a thriving "rent-a-body" industry fast becoming popular (think of the franchising opportunities in Europe a few years from now!) in Lebanon.

There is one already. It's Mr. Green Helmet's "iced body truck". He delivers in a flash.

woo hoo, i seem to have stirred some sympathy for splodeydope prototypes. I never knew I was amongst such PC company.

Imo, it's time to tell it like it is - the dude carrying the "martyr" wants you and me dead, and I'd rather his progeny didn't reach reproductive age. "Darwinism by swing" is fine with me when dealing with these 'people'.

Even if the first captions had been true, how the hell do they explain what a 5 year old girl is doing in (or even close to) a "militant" training camp?

Everyone should read about Eddie Adams, the photographer who took one of two iconic images of the Vietnam War, ARVN General Nguyen Ngoc Loan summary execution of Nguyen Van Lem, a Viet Cong officer, with a revolver to the head, in a Saigon street in Feb 1968.

Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize but he regretted the impact his photo had. He also may have resented how it overshadowed the rest of his career, which was very accomplished.

Adams reflections, in Time magazine, should be carefully studied by every member of the MSM.

"The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths...What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?'"

Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyen and his family for the damage it did to his reputation. When General Nguyen died, Adams praised him as a hero, fighting for good cause:

"The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him."

Now this is interesting:

The other iconic image of the Vietnam War (also a Pulitzer winner) is Nick Ut's shot of a young Vietnamese girl, Kim Phuc, running naked, having been burned in a napalm attack. It should be noted that Ut saved the girl's life by pouring his canteen of water on her and taking her to the hospital. Ut has always defended the photo as an accurate portrayal of the horrors of war, and I believe he is sincere. However, the photo still illustrates how images can be distorted.

The photograph, taken in June of 1972, galvanized the anti-war movement in the United States. Ironically, by 1972, most US troops were out of Vietnam, Vietnamization was working, with ARVN doing almost all the fighting. The image was generally published with captions and context that were anti-American. However, there were no American involved in the incident.

The only foreigners, among them also Americans, were the reporters on the scene.

The airstrike had been requested by a commander of the Vietnamese 25th Army Division and was provided by the exclusively Vietnamese co-ordinated and controlled 518th Vietnamese Airforce Squadron (VNAF), with
Vietnamese pilots in the cockpits. Unlike in previous years of the war both the ground units and the Airforce Squadron had no U.S. advisors attached to them anymore.

Eddie Adams is dead, but I'd be interested to hear Nick Ut's take on the current bruhaha.

#9 shimra 8/10/2006 12:18PM PDT

Wouldn't shock me if Hamas had her killed for the propaganda value.

Agreed.

Is that guy in the background SMILING? These guys are sick f*ckers...

Any of you lizardoid minions able to find Nick Ut's current email address? He's currently chief photographer for AP's Los Angeles office.

I'm in a debate on a forum where this photo has come up. Anyone have sources for the photos/captions in the post? I'm especially looking for the source for:

EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** A Relative carries the body of Rajaa Abu Shaban, 5, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. On Thursday, doctors said that the 5-year-old Palestinian girl initially believed to have been killed by an Israeli military strike Wednesday apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)

thanks,

OK. I am trying to figure out if I should get mad or just laugh. It's just every man for himself at this point.

The Glorification of Death, the Irrelevance of Truth,
by Stephen J. Kohn
[Link: www.muslimworldtoday.com...]

The Glorification Of Death, The Irrelevance Of Truth

By: Stephen J. Kohn
There has never been as large a group that worships and condones civilian enemy deaths as the Muslim terrorists and their supporters. Death to enemies, including supposedly errant wives and daughters, and civilians, by any means from beheadings to suicide belts to hijacked planes slamming into buildings to planned nuclear weapons to setting their co-religionists up for Israeli weapons fired in innocence is more accepted than in any other culture.

There is no bias in the targets. Other Muslims are targets, from Sudan to Iraq to Solomon Rushdie-they are equally vulnerable. And the locations of the targets are nearly universal-from Bali to New York to Buenos Aires to Moscow, and all points between.

Deaths of their own suicide bombers and soldiers with a promised quick trip to paradise is part of the military tactics they employ. The Iranians used a wall of Paradise-promised 10 year olds to explode Iraqi mines laid in the Iran Iraq war as they crossed the battlefield. Western fools who do not comprehend this death cult seem delusional and are not demonstrating their erudition by urging us to understand other cultures. The simplest among us can judge the basic wrongness in a philosophy based on the glorification of death.

In fact, news presentations show how the listener or reader is set up by the not so innocent dupes in the media. Consider the way deaths caused by Israeli or American forces are too frequently described by the news media. "The Israelis slaughtered 60 Lebanese children."

But when Muslim forces slay civilians, the grammar turns passive and we are told "Sixty Iraqis were killed in a market in Bagdad." Or "140 rockets were targeted on Kiryat Shmona." No hint is given as to identities of the Iranian-backed bomb designers or the team launching these instruments of death. Ignored also is the intentional targeting for death of the women and children behind whose aprons and overalls the killers hide as they return to the homes dotting the Lebanese hillsides and Gaza sand dunes where the rockets and launchers are stored.

Enlightened armies do not use the camouflage of their civilians to protect themselves. Is there no comprehension and curiosity as to why, whenever launching platforms and command and control centers are detected in Lebanon, sitting nearby are the soon to be wailing mothers and their children whose blood will be featured on the latest Aljazeera and BBC broadcast several hours later, their lives having been hijacked and destroyed by cynical terrorist leaders.

Every wise person knows that civilian deaths on either side of the firing line are a major Hezbollah or Hamas propaganda objective-much more important than the direct military consequences. And only a fool can ignore this. And those who set targets are delighted to kill Israeli civilians (Christian, Muslim or Jewish) and equally delighted to see their own killed. In fact, it sometimes seems that the more decorative Muslim medals must be given for setting up some seeming massacres by the Israelis or Americans.

re #126

How American journalism, particularly, which will insert "alleged" to protect the most obvious of criminals can write with 100% certainty of a supposed Israeli war crime minutes after its alleged commission without the slightest independent investigation, is incomprehensible. Unless the truth is irrelevant and the fabrication matches the objectives of the writer.

As with previous cases of fraudulent claims of Israeli massacres, the truth will be submerged under the slime of media and UN assertions of our guilt. And when truth emerges, its life will have a far shorter span. There are still 492,000 Google entries for "Jenin Massacre," which never happened. The truth is irrelevant.

#24 LawHawk:

Let's be clear here. The photos aren't fake. The girl died. However, the photo was staged and the caption was completely wrong as to the cause of death. Israel had nothing to do with the death.

But, as Charles noted, none of that matters since the image trumps all.

Well, that's the idea that many, many people are counting on -- more than just the Islamic variety of wannabe totalitarians, in fact.

Defanging this sort of thing in the long run requires mainstreaming the knowledge that, as Leonard Peikoff said, "a picture is not an argument."

My money is on the smirking jackass with the gun shot her in the head. She has blood all the way down to her knee which makes me suspect she might have been standing when she recieved her head wound.

The "relative" took the time to put on at least one glove before picking her up? WTF? And some how he managed not to get any blood on him? Oh I see...the blood on her leg looks like it's dry. So how long did he wait to pick her up?

BLEAH The story stinks.

#124: See: Link To Photo w/ New Caption

Gizmo... Thanks for the link it's gross but it does clarify a few points for me. It might have really been an accident or perhaps not.:D I admit to being inclined to think the worst of them.

including 5-year-old Rajaa Abu Shaban

Doesn't Abu translate as: father of?

She's 5 years old!

More obfuscation/cover-up.

Anyone else notice that in the 1st and 3rd picture where she's being held she is 5 years old, but in the 2nd picture from the morgue she is 3 years old?

If they can't even get that right I don't think I'll believe their assessment of cause of death.

Also the first two pictures both say "witnesses said" she was killed by the airstrike. Hopefully whoever talked to the "witnesses" now realizes they were being lied to, but something tells me they will swallow again wholeheartedly in the future.

Thanks gizmo! Exactly what I needed!

The Religion of Necrophilia

Its not a fake photo, nor a fake caption.

The true story, which I am sure Al Rueters will run soon, is that she fell off an ISRAELI made swing that had a timing mechanisim to make sure that any little girl who was on it would fall off just before an Israeli rocket attack in that village.

And the kicker, Bush and Rumsfeld own 49% of the controlling interest in the stock of the company that made the swing.