“It should be noted that the photography credits for this "photo" go to a certain Adnan Hajj. Even though this photo clearly is not of natural smoke, one wonders why Reuters editors or even Yahoo photo editors, didn't catch the fake before it was released. Other questions have been raised about the biased nature of the photographer in question because it seems that some photos of the massacre in Qana photographed once again by Adnan Hajj look staged.
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Reuters Drops Photographer Who Faked Israeli Bomb Results
23:25 Aug 06, '06 / 12 Av 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Reuters News Agency has announced it is cutting from its payroll a freelance photographer who altered a photograph that showed that the results of an Israeli bombing were far worse than in reality.
An American news site caught the fake when it noticed that the billows of smoke in the photo showed a repetitious pattern. However, the news agency said that the photographer, Adnan Hajj, said the image was changed after he tried "to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under."
Hajj also photographed images of a dead child in the explosion in the village of Kana last week. Several private web sites have questioned the veracity of the pictures.