American Strippers vs Islamic sensibilities, just another attempt to portray the many evils of the Bush administration.
Here's the article in the Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/world/middleeast/27morale.html?hp&ex=1156737600&en=0fe4da449e021a4d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
It's not overly complimentary to the performers, but it doesn't infer that they are strippers, and it's hard to see how something as subtle as removing part of a microphone cord would make a significant change in how people view that picture.
The faces you circle in your other post do not look cloned, they look like different people with military haircuts in a picture that appears grainy because you zoomed in too far for the resolution of the image.
The arm does not look photoshopped in. The pattern in the material changes where the sleeve joins the rest of the shirt in a normal fashion. The arm and shoulder look normal for someone of that stature with their hand on their hip in that pose. Go put your hand on your hip that way and look in a mirror and imagine adding a few pounds if necessary.
As for a curve in the blur, the curve in the blur would have to match the curve in the microphone cord as it moved. I would expect it to have a slight curve rather than being perfectly strait.