[Helms]

[bikerman]

Iraqi KKK?

[usurper]

Darn, I knew we were fighting insurgents. This is the first documented evidence that some are from Ramulack.

[Diddle E. Squat]

[Mr.Atos]

How many butchered here, never got to hold their children again because of the actions of this animal and his friends... and his son... with the defense and support of Leftists like, Mr. Bouju.

Atos

[CougarGA7]

I thought the guy in the picture was familar and then I realized....it's MEGALON! Here he is meeting with a delegate from Japan several years ago.

[Yardstick]

The men have to have their heads covered when there are photographers there according to the Geneva Convention.

My guess is that the photographer and the selection committee would prefer that the viewers of the photo be ignorant of this little fact.

[Mr. Bird]

It's not a great picture. It's an interesting picture, most certainly. If the date is 3/31/03, that means we were still right in the middle of a march to Baghdad (about a week and half along in the war). It would be the height of dishonesty to say the picture evokes images of American brutality; it clearly demonstrates the opposite. In the middle of a shooting war in which our enemies could blend with our allies, we still allowed detainees the dignity of remaining with their families.

[Hildy]

Why not the picture of the Palestinian child with a bomb around his waist...why not that one?

[dead]

The photo is touching because the knight appears to have grown all his limbs back.

[geedee]

Liberals rewarding liberals? I'm shocked.

Wait until you see who wins all the Academy Awards. You heard it here first . . . the Hollyweird whores want to prove they're the only enlightened species in the Northern Hemisphere so Sean Penn and all the other blame-America-first-second-and-always'ers will win. It'll have nothing to do with their performances. Hell, Sean Penn's acting abilities haven't changed since Fast Times at Ridgemont High . . . only his voice. He's still a punk . . . just a wealthier one now.

But they'll fawn all over him like he's Sir Sean Poitier.

[Alouette]

How do we know this is not another phony, staged photo-op like this one:

Sat Feb 7, 9:51 AM ET
Photographers take pictures of a Palestinian woman as she cries next to the 8-meter-tall wall part of the barrier Israel is building to separate the outskirts of Jerusalem from the West Bank in the village of Abu Dis Saturday Feb. 7, 2004. Around a thousand Israeli and Palestinians rallied against the controversial security barrier that is meant, according to Israel, to keep suicide bombers out. Others condemn the barrier, which dips deep into the West Bank in some areas, as a land grab. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

[mercy]

Caption:

My son, now it is up to you. I have failed in my life's task. The filthy Crusaders have ruined me without cause. This is Alla's will my son. He knows that you shall be twice the warrior I could ever be. You must be a great martyr for Allah my son. Go and see uncle Akmed. He will give you a belt to wear and show you what must be done. You shall abenge me. It is Allah's will.

[piasa]

First thing I notice about the picture is that the captured individual isn't wearing a uniform nor even some form of insignia denoting that he is part of an organized militia.

That's signigficant since lawful combatants wear uniforms or other obvious insignia denoting what they are so as to avoid being confused for civilians- they do this to prevent giving the enemy a reason - or excuse as the case may be - to kill civilians.

Since he has no uniform and he's obviously not wearing clothing we provided, then he is not a lawful combatant.

He is thus a possible member of the fedeyeen saddam, an individual employed deliberately by the regime to mix in with civilians and use the appearance of a civilian as protection to pass through American or British lines or to be able to get close to coalition troops without being detected.

Those are the methods of terrorists, not soldiers, though some soldiers may have in fear opted to discard their uniforms and try to go home. This one may have done just that, and so was caught with his kid and identified as a suspected Iraqi soldier.

If that was the case, it may be his military haircut gave him away; can't tell owing to the hood, which as oithers have said, is SOP when photographers are around in order to prevent POWs from being humiliated as required by Geneva.

It is also possible he was just a regular Iraqi who was carrying arms openly, in which case he is considered lawful. Or he happened to be in the wrong place and in the company of others who were infiltrated by fedeyeen types, in which case he must be assumed at least for a while to be one of them.

Since we weren't rounding up just anyone, however, something must have given him away as a combatant or potential combatant.

[ANRCHTN]

quite touching.



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[Cinnamon Girl]

Am I supposed to know why that guy has a trash bag on his head?

[mass55th]

I'm surprised they didn't pick the doctored photo of the Afghan/Iraqi sitting on the ground and the soldier's weapon pointing at him. Do you remember that one and how it was later proven to have been altered?

[Eaker]

Ping

[weegee]

This photo tells a more complete story:

It should win next year's Pulitzer because it reveals the media manipulation we see...

The woman is grieving, the small child out of camera shot is smiling.

The press is crowded in to get a "dramatic" shot. Conveniently they are located in front of a slogan that just happens to be in English.

[weegee]

Did Baghdad Bob or Al Jazeera win any awards?

[beebuster2000]

hey- maybe its not a guy. ever think of that ? no?