Posted on 06/30/2005 2:37:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
THIS picture shows it.
It's not the guy right holding the hostages arm. It's the guy to the far right.
I'll be damned you're right.
The media has be PURPOSEFULLY showing a cropped picture.
Anyone have a hotline to freepers with ping lists.
This needs to be spread around.
The new Iranian President is one of the hostage takers and the media has been showing a cropped picture that doesn't show it.
Hook it up!
AP Photo shows Irans new President as 1979 US hostage-taker
************************************
Wednesday, 29th June 2005
Iran Focus London, Jun. 29 - Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979. |
try keyword pinglist.
They've got the wrong guy circled. It's the guy next to him.
Now wouldn't that be something!
I don't know what you mean.
I've never mastered this art of navigating this site.
No Ernest its the guy in the blazer with the dark turtle neck.
It's definitely not the guy holding the hostage's arm. But you're right, it may well be the other one, further to the viewer's right, who appears in another picture (shown on another thread) to have a very similar profile.
Question: was the one of the viewer's far right actually one of the hostage takers? Or was he a negotiator of some sort? We've got to make sure we've got our facts straight
You're joking, right?
Damn, I am good. I was 18 at the time and incensed enough to have that picture engrained in my mind. I told my wife as soon as I saw that guy that he was one of the original terrorists who took the hostages.
The hostages must be outraged. It brings back helpless memories of what we were then, a paper tiger.
You have to keep in perspective that it wasn't that we were made helpless by terrorists but by an actual country of terrorists...and we did little.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan - as he righted that ship.
You mean like when Time cropped out Protest Warriors to try to make them look like anti-Coulter protesters?
I still can't believe a bigger stink was not made of that.
In the photo above... the guy NEXT to the guy holding the hostages arm.
THAT'S the new President of Iran.
I'm sure of it.
He might have just been a planner, not actually ONE of the
The hairline of the guy in the turtle-neck matches better with the second photo in the BBC second picture,.
"It's not the guy right holding the hostages arm. It's the guy to the far right."
Wow, I think that you are right. The guy holding the arm of our guy is probably a straight nosed cousin.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.