[Texas Songwriter]

This is why I love Freepers. You can mislead some of some of the time but never all of us all of the time

In addition to all of the great remarks on this thread, it should be noted that the "fake smoke" is dark black. Dark black smoke is generally found with hydrocarbon fires. If you look at most legitimate photographs of explosions in the city of concrete, one would expect plumes of smoke the color of......yes....concrete.....light grey. That is what the posted legitimate photo showed. These Reuters hotdogs are too clever. What a bunch of putzes.

[Sam Hill]

"In addition to all of the great remarks on this thread, it should be noted that the "fake smoke" is dark black. Dark black smoke is generally found with hydrocarbon fires."

This same photographer seems to almost specialize in smoke photos, if you Google his name.

For instance, he took a lot of photos of the Beiruit airport, when the IAF first bombed it, which probably gave him a lot of nice black smoke.

But I'm sure he has lots lying around to choose from.

[Enchante]

hydrocarbon fires

Yes, that raises another point to pursue: were there ANY fires in this part of Beirut with such dark oily smoke at the time the photo was taken, or is ALL of the smoke overlaid from another photo (maybe of when Israel did bomb an oil storage depot, etc.)....... this thick black smoke is quite remarkable in appearance, not what we have seen in most war zone photos........ if we can find any other photos of this bombing site taken at approximately the same time we should have our answer.