Posted on 05/01/2008 9:22:51 AM PDT by hadit2here
Two-year-old Ali Hussein is pulled from the rubble of his family's home in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. The child, who later died in hospital, was in one of four homes allegedly destroyed by U.S. missiles. More than two dozen people were killed when Shiite militants ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's embattled Sadr City district, bringing the death toll in area on Tuesday to more than 30, a U.S. military spokesman and Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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The accompanying article was the standard biased, anti-US military krap, so I checked the name of the photographer- Karim Kadim. Then I did a quick search for him plus "Associated Press". The result was quite interesting. According to AP.org itself: "Besides Mohammed, the AP team included four other Iraqi photographers — Bilal Hussein, Karim Kadim, Samir Mizban and Mohammed Uraibi." This Kadim guy sure has a knack for being at all the right places when the "poor, innocent" civilians are killed or injured by the big bad US military.
Bilal Hussein?? Isn't he the guy who's been the guest of the US military for two years for his connections to the terrorists? Oooops, alleged connections.
Anyway, I just wanted to bring this latest excursion into anti-US/anti-military by the AP to light and for future reference. Anyone care to do some "analysis" of the fauxtographs?
It’s like ‘Where’s Waldo’, blue-helmet guy style...
Yeah, it’s a green helmet guy kind of picture. Do you notice the interesting camera angle and the dramatic holding the child aloft? If the photographer had been at ground level, it wouldn’t have been nearly as impactful. I wonder how many takes the picture took to get it right.
Yeah, it’s a green helmet guy kind of picture. Do you notice the interesting camera angle and the dramatic holding the child aloft? If the photographer had been at ground level, it wouldn’t have been nearly as impactful. I wonder how many takes the picture took to get it right.
Notice that virtually all of the “rescuers” are not even covered in dust, let alone covered with “rubble” as they would have to have been to “dig out” the dirt and rubble covered child. Jeez, I wish I could stay this clean just working around the house.
What’s the guy in (clean) blue coveralls in the left foregound pointing to- best camera angle?? Is he the local substitute for the GreenHelmetGuy who did so well in this role in Lebanon?
The guy with the backpack and the one holding the child- both have white shirts, which are so very clean and bright. They could be used in an ad for a laundry detergent.
And the guy in back in black with the face covering- black shows light dust and dirt very easily, yet here he is in the hole of a blown up building, looking like he too could be in the detergent ad.
Maybe you all have more to add after seeing some of the photo series at the link. It just seem so... ummmm, “contrived” and “staged” to me. Not that I don’t believe that there were casualties and great damage. But again we see the AP staging photo ops to make the US and the military look the worst possible- killing civiian children.
Or, we could talk about French civilian casualties on D-Day......or,.....
The parents are to blame. They are asses to be involved in terrorist activities with a child at home. But it seems these brave islamic (allah ate pork) terrorists love to hide behind children and women.
I wish it were fake. I hope this little boy is alive and well, but I doubt it. This is what happens in war. If someone were to fake this photo, I doubt they would’ve photoshopped a pink, ruffled pillow into it. It looks real to me. JMO.
The real question is: Was this home really destroyed by U.S. missiles?
It’s really interesting to do a search on Scroogle for “Karim Kadim” and Associated Press, and see the list of pictures ol’ Kadim was able to get of just about every “civilian” injured or killed in the Sadr city fighting. Boy, is he ever good! He and his comrades have such perfect timing and capabilities that they are in the right place at exactly the right time, all the time. I’ll bet Michael Yon would give his flak vest for that kinda good fortune, and knowing exactly where to be at what time to get the Pulitzer Prize winning pictures.
Oh, that’s right, Yon’s on the wrong side. He’d never even be considered for the leftist PP. Only good socialists/liberals/muslims/”freedom fighters” need apply.
Where’s Green Helmet Guy (GHG)?
Tough Shiite.
Did you even go to the link and read the information there?? “The child, who later died at the hospital, was in one of four homes destroyed by U.S. missiles.”
I’m not saying the photo is photoshopped, but I am wondering if it is “staged”. Do a search on FR for “Green Helmet Guy” and go read a little about the fauxtography the AP and AFP has used to put the US, Israel and the military in the worst possible light.
I don’t doubt the building was destroyed by a missile, or that the child was killed. I am pointing out that every one of the so-called “rescuers” clothes are clean and dust/dirt free. How many times have you seen that in a picture of an “actual” rescue. Believe me, I spent years in EMS and have done my share of “rescues” and extractions- your clothes (and skin) aren’t clean for more than about 5 seconds.
I didn’t claim that the “pink, ruffled pillow” was photoshopped into the pic. But I do feel that everything put together says this picture was “staged” for the camera(s), based upon past work by AP, AFP and the Iraqi photographers they employ.
Do a little research. You’ll see what I mean.
I wish I could remember how to post pictures. i found one by the same photographer showing a kid on a clinic table being treated for a horrible stomach wound. The kid is smiling happily to get his picture taken
Is it customary for rescue workers to lift a victim limp body high over their heads for better media exposure?
A real rescue team will strap a victim to an immobilizng board to prevent spinal cord injury.
Fauxtography alert!!! Or maybe we used on of those clean bombs, or the pillows were just Scotchguarded or something.
It’s not that the photo was doctored or that there wasn’t collateral damage, it is that the photo is obviously staged, as carefully as if it were for a magazine. For all we know, the child died the day before of disease and not in a missile attack. That is the kind of doubt such obvious staging imparts.
Yes, I DID go to the link and read the information. I also read the information you posted above. I see now that you added the word allegedly:
The child, who later died in hospital, was in one of four homes allegedly destroyed by U.S. missiles.
Remember the Iraqi boy who lost his arms and his parents in a bombing blamed on the U.S.? There was question at the time as to whether the U.S. had even bombed that particular site. So, I think we need to ask whether or not the U.S. really did bomb this particular site. If so, the Shiite ambush is to blame because our military was only responding.
Do a search on FR for “Green Helmet Guy” and go read a little about the fauxtography the AP and AFP has used to put the US, Israel and the military in the worst possible light.
I don't have to do that. I was here the day that discussion started, and I followed it then. Your questions should be asked, and the point about the source (the photographer's name) and his biases should be made. But you asked for opinions. Well, I gave mine. It doesn't look fake to me. But I don't know. Maybe you'll prove that it is. I'll be interested to find out.
See post 17 above. I gave my opinion. The photo doesn’t look fake to me. Did the rescue workers lift the body higher for a better shot? I don’t know. Possibly.
To me, the real question is, as I asked before, was this child really killed by a U.S. missile attack? The way the photo is set up isn’t what makes me suspicious. What makes me suspicious are the other distortions of truth continuously put out there by our enemies.
But, keep investigating the photo. I’ll be interested to see what everyone comes up with.
That's culturally insensitive. It's traditional for Arabs to do the crowd-surfing thing with corpses... in the box or out.
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