Today I was checking in with snopes.com to see about that e-mail that I keep seeing about the plane being delayed when the Marines were boarding (great story BTW).. just wanted to check it out...Then I came across this...
Did everybody see this and I just somehow missed it?
WOW! Sorry for the duplicate if so, but wow!
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Claim: A mural in Iraq depicts an airplane slamming into buildings resembling the World Trade Center towers. Status: True. Origins: On 26 March 2003, a mural showing an airplane crashing into one of two tall vertical buildings and setting it aflame (while a second airplane approaches the other building) was discovered by U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in Nasiriya. The plane in this cheerily-hued painting bears the logo and color scheme of Iraqi Airlines. The now famous photo, which shows two Marines in front of the mural, was taken by Joe Raedle, a photo journalist accompanying the No comment has so far been offered as to whether the mural Barbara "artless" Mikkelson Last updated: 30 March 2003 |