AP Fires Photographer: Reuters Fires Photographer Over Doctored Photos

They better take a good look at his alter ego/side kick "Issam Kobeisy". (And Reuters is keeping him on staff to promote more "fauxtography")

A Lebanese civil defence worker removes the body of a toddler from the wreckage of a building August 8, 2006 that was hit by an Israeli raid in Beirut. The attack which took place yesterday on Chiyah, a residential neighbourhood in Beirut, killed 13 people and wounded dozens according to police. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisy (LEBANON)

(horrid gash/no blood-at least they've started plastering the bodies in dust more evenly)

Apparently, others have noticed the similarities in the two photographers' work. The Jawa Report cites these two "different" images by the two different photographers:

A Lebanese woman cries as she carries belongings from her home which was hit by an Israeli air strike in south Beirut July 23, 2006. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj (LEBANON)

A Lebanese woman cries as she carries belongings she founded in the wreckage of her home that was targeted by the Israeli air strikes,in southern Beirut July 23, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisi (LEBANON)

Awe heck, maybe it's just a typo...

The disturbing make believe photos from this disturbing make believe event are shown below. Don’t allow children under the age of 30 to view this horror caused by Israel. Of course, this is Bush's fault.

No Problem! Here comes your Bomb!

Don't know if you were around back then, but when someone posted a yellow Ryder truck in a photo supposedly shot at a military facility on a Rivero thread, someone else posted a photo with 3 yellow Ryder trucks side by side...

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