Posted on 08/03/2006 4:19:52 PM PDT by Republican Red
This is incredible information.
I hope Michelle Malkin, David Horowitz, Sean Hannity talk about this.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html
8/6/06
US Blogs: Reuters doctored Beirut photo
I happened upon Austin American-Statesman's 7/31 front page (can't seem to find it on the web). The reason it caught my attention was the huge picture of Green Helmet Guy carrying the child with the oddly bent arm. It's a new pose I hadn't seen before. Helmet guy, in profile, seems to be crying to the heavens about the atrocities with the poor child in his arms and rubble in the background. Guess who took the picture? Yep, you guessed it. Nassar Nassar himself. Seems they've been together for at least 10 years. Wonder how much they get paid for these scams.
Within that article, in the comment section is a link to yet another picture of a bloody scene of an Israeli attack on Aug. 5 in Tyre. You get one guess who is the subject in the photo.
Adjusting my tin foil hat, but Green Helmet might warrant some investigation in any unsolved deaths in that area, and even solved murder cases if he was the government coroner who did the autopsies.
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=71589463&cdi=0
bttt
I've seen enough of paliwood to be disgusted by it's constant appearance as news.
That said - there are a couple points in your analysis that you need to revise.
1) How did the victims end up in the basement? This is basic. When a building collapses inwards (from above), no matter what floor you are on - you will end up in the basement buried in rubble from the collapse above and around you. On this point, the Qana building collapse is realistic.
2) The Mortician theory - dressing bodies for funerals:
Funerals in the Middle east are very different from what you may be used to. The practise of decorating a body with makeup and nice clothes is common for "open casket funerals". These are soooo rare in the Middle east as to be almost non-existant. They are forbidden by both Muslim and Jewish law and outside of eastern orthodox Christian practises. Generally, bodies are cleaned with water, wrapped in cloth and placed either directly into the earth or first into a simple wooden coffin. There is no "viewing". If Green hat is indeed a mortician (and I would highly doubt the calling a mortician to a rescue in another town) - he is most likely unfamiliar with tecniques for making a body attractive for viewing.
As he is so many photos for such a long period of time it is more likely that he is either in the employ of a photographer/news agency, or part of a local rescue unit - taking on whatever title makes his media appearance seem more believable. Basically - not a mortician.
1) If the victims were on the first floor during the collapse, there would be rubble underneath them. It would be easy enough to tell whether they were in the basement or not.
2) The comment was an analogy to western morticians, not meant to describe what this green hat guy does. Maybe he clipped on a binkie to make it look more tragic, maybe someone else did. The point is it's perfectly clean while the child is covered in dirt.
He calls himself a mortician, and has access to a vanload of corpses. He also has connections to Hezbollah. It ain't his first time at the dance. Not too hard to connect the dots.
Sisku,
Thanks for the welcome.
I really don't dispute that GREEN HAT is not the character he claims to be. I've been looking over Hajj's photos and so many of them are obviously staged. I would tend to believe at this point that both Hajj and his GREEN HAT actor are applying for unemployment.
On your points:
1) the building collapse
A couple years ago a local building collapsed here from the 3rd floor during a wedding reception. Hundreds of guests were seriously injured and several died. Rescue workers went through the night trying to pull out the survivors while they were still "survivors".
It's very difficult to analyze how the rubble sits after such an event - it really depends on where the collapse began (from the walls, the ceiling or the floor). If the collapse was from the center - the amount of rubble beneath the victims would indeed be much less than the amount above. And all the victims would end up at the lowest possible level of the building.
I really do believe that a building collapsed and that victims were caught inside.
Using them for "staging" though is unethical and untenable. Reviewing all Hajj's shots from this day clearly show "staging". Many of the children's corpses were used over and over in photo shoots throughout the day. No doubt the greatly exaggerated numbers also originated from the "stagers"
2) the "Binkie" - another staging give-away. Yes - way too clean and obviously NOT part of the childs original attire.
Oversights like this are very common among Palestinian "staging" photographers. It is what it is.
I personally think the real problem lies with News agencies - who will always pay top dollar for the most dramatized - attention gaining pic or headline. They are partly responsible for the creation of men like Hajj.
You could be right - that the children died of other causes. After closely screening the pics available though (not Hajj's of course) - there is no evidence to show that the event itself was staged.
1) The children appear to be in a state of rigor mortis. This occurs shortly after death and doesn't last very long.
2) We do not have photos of all the victims (and the Red Cross did not order autopsies) - so it's difficult to assess trauma damage. If the children were caught in a collapse some would have died via suffocation (dust and debris) and some from head trauma (common in small children) and some from other, more visible traumas. So far, the visuals are quite similar to victims of building collapses during earthquakes.
3) We have absolutely no way of knowing what caused the building collapse (bomb from above, explosion from below or within, structural damage???). Damages and trauma are different depending on the collapse origin and direction.
4) The International media seem little interested in the truth. They are looking for the "shocking" headlines to grab their audiences. In this race for ratings the means to reach the truth is now permanently buried.
5) The theory that the bodies were planted is not one I would be willing at this point to entertain. It simply raises more questions than can be answered (ie: rigor mortis = recent death; difficult to plant bodies deeply underneath existing rubble; too many non-hizbullah personnel involved in rescue efforts; some of the people buried in the building actually survived).
The fact that it is being discussed and analysed, though, is a good sign. Shows that some people still believe the truth matters. As an Israeli on the receiving end of Hizbullah's daily madness - that's good to know.
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