Another bogus photo?

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[Uncledave]

Another bogus photo? (Update: “The Passion of the Toys”)

posted at 2:36 pm on August 8, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Just got an e-mail about the following photo from someone who claims to work at Boeing.

Caption:

Two Lebanese army soldiers inspect a damaged vehicle that was struck by Israeli ware [sic] plane missiles at the village of Kfar Zabad in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Israel and Hezbollah sharply intensified fighting Saturday with airstrikes, rocket attacks and brutal ground fighting, an apparent bid to inflict maximum mutual damage even as the United States and France agreed on a draft U.N. resolution calling for a halt to the violence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Says my correspondent:

I am not saying the description is false, but I spent 20 years in the Air Force, much of that time doing targeting and mission planning for aircrews which involved a lot of post-strike analysis. This is by far, the lease [sic] amount of damage from an “air strike” I have ever seen. Even a Hellfire missile does more damage than this, remember the Predator strike on the car of some Al Qaeda operatives some time back? Total destruction of a soft vehicle like this. The only damage, other than minor body damage, I see is a missing sun roof. Thought you might want to add it to your list of possible fakes.

Dan Riehl noticed precisely the same problem a week ago with photos of the “airstrike” on a Lebanese ambulance. Except the hole in the roof in that case was even smaller than this one.

I’m going to e-mail Noah Shachtman of Defense Tech. If there are any mini-missiles capable of causing this kind of damage, he’ll know.

By the way: does the name “Nasser Nasser” ring a bell? It should. It really should.

Update: SeeDubya reminds us of what cars usually look like after they’ve been introduced to missiles.

Update: Reader “Kaltes” e-mails to point out that the car has an, er, intact windshield. The miracles of Zionist technology.

Says Kaltes, “This is nothing more than a beat up old junker stripped and left in a ditch as garbage.”

Update: Dan at RightWired notes that there are no skid marks or debris on the road and no burn marks on the grass. I suppose the car could have been moved from the spot where it was hit. Given the condition it’s in, it might have been driven away.

Update: James Taranto finds it verrrry suspicious that one of the corpses laid out at Qana appears to be sitting up. Check the third photo in this post by Confederate Yankee. It’s not that suspicious.

Update: Brilliant. Ten times as damning as the car photo, if not more.

[Uncledave]

Looks to me like a homicide bomber popped early on the way to his gig

[Uncledave]

I hope somebody is putting together a good site to catalogue in one resource all these propaganda finds.

I'd do it if I knew how to put a decent site together

[Boiler Plate]

Did they drop a diet coke with mentos, on it?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

that car isn't damaged as badly as one is after a good old-fashioned Central Texas hail storm..

[Moose4]

The only way that car ate a missile is if the missle was a dud and the warhead didn't go off after making it into a convertible. If that thing took a direct hit from an explosive of any size--let alone a Hellfire or even a Maverick, whatever the IAF's got on the shelf these days--there wouldn't be a whole hell of a lot left of that car. Looks like two hajjis with sledgehammers and about two minutes' work to me. But I'm no expert.

}:-)4

[reagan_fanatic]

Looks like something you'd see driving down the street in Chicago to me.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree. No expertise, but this doesn't look like missile damage at all.

[Lx]

That's a mighty fine sunroof there!

[ArrogantBustard]

That ain't missile damage ... it's not even grenade damage ... sort of looks like it was T-boned on the right side, then dragged to the side of the road. A long time ago. The soldiers are probably checking for IEDs or lurkers in it.

[pissant]

The phoniness keeps compiling. Now we need to keep up the pressure, not only on the photos, but more importantly on the false stories that are spewed out every day.

[South40]

This is by far, the lease [sic] amount of damage from an “air strike” I have ever seen.

Some cars are pretty tough

[Mo1]

That is one strong windshield to still be intact after having a missile dropped directly on top of it

[Reactionary]

The moronic Leftists are such anti-American and anti-Israeli tools, propaganda like this doesn't even register a smirk.

It's just stupid.

[Mo1]

I hope somebody is putting together a good site to catalogue in one resource all these propaganda finds

Yep .. there are so many of these stories it's hard to keep up with them all

[Grampa Dave]

The disturbing make believe photos from this disturbing make believe event are shown below. Don’t allow children under the age of 30 to view this horror caused by Israel. Of course, this is Bush's fault.

No Problem! Here comes your Bomb!

If 4 FDR terms were good for the America after Pearl Harbor? How about at least 3 terms for GW after 9/11 to complete the WOT?

[Billthedrill]

ROTFLMAO! My co-workers are wondering what I'm screeching at...

[Republican Red]

This is really unbelevable. From your link Opinion Journal

Notice the body in the background appears to be sitting.



"Bodies of Lebanese residents of the southern village of Qana near the port city of Tyre, Lebanon, are laid covered after they were removed from under the rubble of a demolished building, background, that was struck by Israeli war plane missiles Sunday, July 30, 2006. At least 50 people, including scores of children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli air strike on this southern Lebanon village--the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting."

A close up of the picture reveals that lo and behold "He's not dead yet!"

[Constantine XIII]

OH MAN, that's great!

[Republican Red]

I passed it on to Michelle Malkin.

Just damn.

[RikaStrom]

Unfreaking real.

Self ping to come look at the links from home.