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DISHONEST REPORTING: Reuters admits to doctoring Beirut photo
7 August 2006
Reuters news agency admitted on Sunday that it had digitally altered a photograph of an Israeli attack on Lebanon on Saturday, showing more smoke than was actually present.The photograph, as initially published, showed an aerial view of Beirut after an IAF attack, with two large pillars of smoke rising over the city. The caption read: Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs.
The agency has since withdrawn the […]
Was the “Massacre” of Qana Staged?
31 July 2006Preliminary IDF investigation of the bombing of civilians in Qana has found some oddities in the timing of events occuring on the night of the civilian building collapse killing scores of Lebanese civilians. Brigadier General Amir Eshel, Head of the Air Force Headquarters of the IDF, claims that the collapse of the civilian building in Qana fell eight hours after being struck by Israeli missiles. This eight hour gap, of course, would be plenty of time for […]
Israel Bombs UN Observation Post being Used As a Terrorist Shield
27 July 2006As most people have heard, Israel has destroyed a UN observation post in Southern Lebanon and killed four UN observers. The UN is putting the blame for these deaths squarely on Israel, which has apologized profusely for their mistake, and explained that Hezbollah guerillas were closeby, and were using the UN observers as human shields, a common terrorist tactic. We tend to believe the Israeli narrative, and the picture below shows why - yes, those two flags […]