More Photo Fakery in Lebanon

Filed under:War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 8/8/2006 @ 3:33 pm

From: Best of the Web

“It’s a little hard to see exactly what’s going on at this size, but as luck would have it the Washington Post used the photo on its July 31 front page, and a sharp-eyed reader scanned it for us.

Here’s an enlargement of the portion in question:

I'm not dead yet

It’s a bit reminiscent of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: “I’m getting better.”)

Plainly this scene was staged for the benefit of the cameras, though it is important to note we know of no evidence that the photographer was complicit in the staging. It is, however, a clear example of how terrorist groups use journalists to spread their propaganda”

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