It looks like the round was fired, look at the gas band. Those look like rifling marks. Could have been an armor piercing round that hit something soft.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/01/the_new_york_times_executive_e.html
No, the point was quite different: here is the article that exposed the NYT. They indicated this picture was evidence of a U.S. missile strike, and when the obvious disparity was pointed out to them, they indicated the French News Agency had mis-labelled the picture. The huge omission was the New York Times editorial board not being able to recognize the difference between a shell and a missile fragment.
The picture isn’t in the article, but you saw the picture in the prior post.