I wish it were fake. I hope this little boy is alive and well, but I doubt it. This is what happens in war. If someone were to fake this photo, I doubt they would’ve photoshopped a pink, ruffled pillow into it. It looks real to me. JMO.
The real question is: Was this home really destroyed by U.S. missiles?
Did you even go to the link and read the information there?? “The child, who later died at the hospital, was in one of four homes destroyed by U.S. missiles.”
I’m not saying the photo is photoshopped, but I am wondering if it is “staged”. Do a search on FR for “Green Helmet Guy” and go read a little about the fauxtography the AP and AFP has used to put the US, Israel and the military in the worst possible light.
I don’t doubt the building was destroyed by a missile, or that the child was killed. I am pointing out that every one of the so-called “rescuers” clothes are clean and dust/dirt free. How many times have you seen that in a picture of an “actual” rescue. Believe me, I spent years in EMS and have done my share of “rescues” and extractions- your clothes (and skin) aren’t clean for more than about 5 seconds.
I didn’t claim that the “pink, ruffled pillow” was photoshopped into the pic. But I do feel that everything put together says this picture was “staged” for the camera(s), based upon past work by AP, AFP and the Iraqi photographers they employ.
Do a little research. You’ll see what I mean.
Is it customary for rescue workers to lift a victim limp body high over their heads for better media exposure?
A real rescue team will strap a victim to an immobilizng board to prevent spinal cord injury.
It’s not that the photo was doctored or that there wasn’t collateral damage, it is that the photo is obviously staged, as carefully as if it were for a magazine. For all we know, the child died the day before of disease and not in a missile attack. That is the kind of doubt such obvious staging imparts.