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?
Where’s Green Helmet Guy (GHG)?
Tough Shiite.
Fauxtography alert!!! Or maybe we used on of those clean bombs, or the pillows were just Scotchguarded or something.
