Posted on 08/07/2006 6:57:45 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
"The trails from all three flares are exactly the same."
Hey, he was probably trying to get the dust out of the image.
Where did you get that one? I think yoor right.
It would be funny if some freeper was photo shopping green helmet guy's face on anything walking.
USS Enterprise Attacks Israeli F-16's Over Lebanon!.. You heard it here first, folks!!!
LMAO!!!
Nope, those are basically artificial clouds created by airplanes at high altitude. I guess we can just call them smoke or exhaust trails.
ICBW but I thought I read a few yrs. ago that the Moonies bought it.
It was the second flag raising, but it was only raised again because some big-wig took the first one. They just had a photographer there for the second raising.
It's bad - but remember the days when Reuters could have gotten away with it? Those days are o-var.
"Well! I guess a foreign Muslim photographer just got lucky again to find the inciting, dramatic picture of a burning Koran after an Israeli air strike, huh? It's the perfect visual metaphor for the Islamist cause -- the Jews destroying the Koran itself -- and I just suppose he happened to luck upon a bomb site where one was conveniently still aflame. I would imagine a book would either stop burning, or be completely burned (and hence not burning) 99% of the time you visited a scene two hours after an attack, but this phographer just got lucky once again, right?
That photographer's name, by the way? Adnan Hajj of Reuters."
Cordially,
ROFL! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
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ROFL!
I enlarged the original picture to take a quick look at it.
Wasn't Hajj the "journalism student" in the Haditha case, or am I just getting confused with these ME names?
hmmm
Good question.. I don't know....
Another Freeper on a different thread has corrected me. The Moonies have UPI not Reuters.
This guy makes Jason Blair and Dan Rather look honest!
It's legit! It was posted on another FR thread. Don't know if my eyes are playing tricks on me, but the guy sure looks identical to the green H. dude!
What it looks like to me is that the smoke has been considerably darkened using Photoshop's burn tool. Note the intense blue of the sky in the right, yet on the left, above the building, it's nearly white. The original probably looked more like this before it was "enhanced":
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