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Iran's Photoshopped Missile Launch
Little Green Footballs ^ | 7-9-08 | Charles Johnson, hat tip webs87

Posted on 07/09/2008 6:44:27 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo

At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media has been Photoshopped:



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bogus; fakebutaccurate; fakephotos; fauxtography; freepun; geopolitics; iran; iranianmissiles; jihad30; lgf; photoshop; proliferation; propagandawingofdnc; stalinisttactics; waronerror
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Busted. BTT.


21 posted on 07/09/2008 7:01:35 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Didn’t they already test the Shihab-3’s anyway? I seem to remember reading they did, but maybe I’m misremembering.

Iran’s big plan to scare the world after the G8 tells them to quit enriching uranium is photoshopping a launch of missiles they’ve already tested? It’s almost funny.


22 posted on 07/09/2008 7:01:42 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: SeafoodGumbo
This is what really happened.
23 posted on 07/09/2008 7:01:49 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (The world WILL be cleaner, safer and more productive without Islam.)
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To: icwhatudo

LOL, man, now it looks like it was all one missile, two at most, that means they don’t have many and didn’t want to waste the few that they had. Great work you guys, heck, I’ll bet our defense department didn’t even pick up on that, this is real news !!


24 posted on 07/09/2008 7:03:18 PM PDT by Scythian
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I’m just thinking outside the box here...

But consider this:
Maybe there were were 4 successful launches, the rockets and trailing plumes are genuine... But the launch platform/vehicle in one of them was identifiable (something they might want to keep secret) in the photo and the easiest way to obscure it was to just clone the dust cloud.


25 posted on 07/09/2008 7:03:49 PM PDT by LegendHasIt (Noone/Nohow '08)
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Methinks same rocket photographed at different stages in flight and layered in Photoshop, besides copying and pasting exhaust smoke.


26 posted on 07/09/2008 7:04:08 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: SeafoodGumbo; Eaker; Allegra
Hey, this is kind of like when Harry Potter attacked Beirut!


27 posted on 07/09/2008 7:05:10 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Eye of Unk

Ahh that’s the “Shaheeb COX III”


28 posted on 07/09/2008 7:05:13 PM PDT by cmsgop (How come they never made "6 Pack" II)
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To: icwhatudo

Apparently so. This is the image at LGF.

29 posted on 07/09/2008 7:05:27 PM PDT by dighton
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To: SeafoodGumbo

That pick is clearly a photo shop but they did have a successful launch.


30 posted on 07/09/2008 7:06:35 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Liberal Bob
ROTFLMAO!

That was pretty damned funny!

31 posted on 07/09/2008 7:06:43 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Waiting for them to fly in bomb-magnet woman and Rescue guy from Lebanon for their next PR stunt.


32 posted on 07/09/2008 7:07:00 PM PDT by Shqipo
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To: Eye of Unk

Or this:


33 posted on 07/09/2008 7:07:26 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: icwhatudo

I think the little piece of smoke thats just above the red squares on the 2nd and 4th square from left. That part looks very similar as well.


34 posted on 07/09/2008 7:08:23 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Photoshop made the price of oil rise!


35 posted on 07/09/2008 7:09:35 PM PDT by airborne (End the "open primary" system now!!! Only Republicans should vote in Republican primaries!)
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To: SeafoodGumbo
null null

"That was just footage from the movie Independence Day, but Iran's real missiles would be a lot like that... yah..."
36 posted on 07/09/2008 7:09:44 PM PDT by WrightOnTarget
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To: SeafoodGumbo
I saw the same missile launch videos the last war games like 6 months or a year ago.
37 posted on 07/09/2008 7:10:26 PM PDT by McGruff (This is not the [insert name here] I knew.)
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To: SeafoodGumbo
An offical Iranian representative present at the test firing (right)
has called the photo tampering claims "ridiculous"...


38 posted on 07/09/2008 7:10:39 PM PDT by mikrofon ("Green-Helmet Guy")
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To: Liberal Bob

“Cannot be shot down by ant know weapon...” ROFL!


39 posted on 07/09/2008 7:11:33 PM PDT by Allegra (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: SeafoodGumbo

I just saved the JPEG and zoomed in and it’s obviously cloned smoke. The Missiles are probably inserted and the smoke is designed to cover the lack of launchers.


40 posted on 07/09/2008 7:12:27 PM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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