[kingu]

The photo from newsmax, showing the soldiers lifting Saddam out of his spider hole, the ground is flat, has a wood border, along with brick edging.

The USA today photos show a rough patch of ground, close to a large concrete pad, with very little clear space around the spider hole. The bricks don't look like they've been in a straight line for a long time, and a large palm tree is visible.

There are multiple solutions to these differences. 1) USA Today did not photograph where Saddam was recovered. 2) The Saddam photo is a fake. I'm leaning strongly towards 2, because to believe the first, I'd have to think that the Army PR machine purposefully took the USA Today people to a different but highly similar location, and I really don't like to think about conspiracies.

[kattracks]

I still don't see where the USA photos show this photo to be a fake.

Any differences you may see may have been caused by the photos being taken at different areas.

[kingu]

Here's another image with the guy who videotaped the capture...



I suppose I could be wrong, but there sure doesn't look like there's enough room on that dirt for all the people that are in the 'Saddam captured' photo. Or I could be making the wrong assumption, and in fact the photo on military.com is of Saddam after he was captured and was put down on the ground elsewhere nearby.

[stlnative]

notice the bricks in the left bottom corner of this picture. The military.com picture was probably taken in between the spider hole and the little bricked in garden that shows at the bottom left of the picture. The picture was taken after they had him out of the hole and right before he was hoisted up into a helicopter.