Your read on the original and the doctored photo differs from mine. Where's the "more dramatic amount of damage?" All I see in the doctored photo is a darker smoke cloud.
He didn't just "darken" it -- he enlarged it as well, as LGF proved by showing the exact nature of the cloning.
We must also note that Mr. Hajj has at least one more "authentically doctored" picture, and that one also adds stuff that wasn't there in the first place. So this one picture is part of a larger pattern of lies by this fellow.
You're trying hard to push the "mere incompetence" explanation, but it doesn't hold water when we consider that this fellow was actively selling lies.
How many bombed areas were depicted in the altered pic? How many were there really?