Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition
Either this woman is the unluckiest multiple home owner in Beirut, or something isn't quite right.
Same clothes, same scar on her left cheek, same mark under her right eye. Two pictures of the same woman, maybe even taken on the same day.
So, what gives?
Update 10.30pm. The BBC is currently using that second picture. Twice. On one page.
(Hat tip David from the Cabarfeidh Pages)
Update Aug 7, 3.45pm. Stealth edit from the BBC:
(Hat tip David again)
Update. Welcome to visitors from the 100+ sites linking to this page. Here's a related post with a possible sighting of the same women doing her act on August 1.
Update. And a special welcome to visitors from the BBC Editors blog.
Update August 9. More pics of the woman here.
A Lebanese woman wails after looking at the wreckage of her apartment, in a building, that was demolished by the Israeli attacks in southern Beirut July 22, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisi (from Yahoo News)
A Lebanese woman reacts at the destruction after she came to inspect her house in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, after Israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed the area overnight.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (from Yahoo News)
Same clothes, same scar on her left cheek, same mark under her right eye. Two pictures of the same woman, maybe even taken on the same day.
So, what gives?
Update 10.30pm. The BBC is currently using that second picture. Twice. On one page.
(Hat tip David from the Cabarfeidh Pages)Update Aug 7, 3.45pm. Stealth edit from the BBC:
(Hat tip David again)
Update. Welcome to visitors from the 100+ sites linking to this page. Here's a related post with a possible sighting of the same women doing her act on August 1.
Update. And a special welcome to visitors from the BBC Editors blog.
Update August 9. More pics of the woman here.
posted by DFH at 3:12 PM
195 Comments:
lol
Based on what Reuters has just admitted to, I'll go with ..."something isn't quite right."
"Lights! Camera! Ululate!"
It's just like you said, she obviously owns multiple properties and is really really unlucky... I means, you don't think these are propaganda pictures do you? Everyone know that only the evil Americans and the Jooos do that sort of thing :-D
So a photographer sent two different images of the same event in response to two picture requests. And the sub-ed didn't remember the first one. Or else a different sub-ed didn't actually bother checking the image against every other on on file.
The fault here is that Reuters employ free-lance photographers and reporters who will happily try something like this on to get another payment. That's what performance related pay gets you.
This kind of thing seems to be on the increase.
The second one shows such utter destruction that her home looks like, er, a typical Middle East building site
I like this freelance-snappers-on-the-make theory.
Green Helmet and his buddies ring freelancer to tell snapper that he has blagged some dead bodies from the local morgue and would he [freelancer] like to come along and do some tasty shots of mutilated corpses.
Snapper (eyeing a tasty Independent front-page gig) sends his shots off, gets a nice bonus and Green Helmet gets his ten per cent (out of which he pays the 'paramedics', who are out-of-work actors).
Another option is, that she is suffering from amnesia, and came back 10 days later and had a similar reaction.
Here's yet another one:
http://photos.reuters.com/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx?type=photoSearch&imageID=2006-08-01T085908Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_0_OUKTP-UK-MIDEAST.XML
"A woman reacts as she surveys the damage to the southern suburbs of Beirut, site of intense Israeli air raids, August 1, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisy"
Not as totally obvious that it's the same woman, but if you enlarge the jpg you may be able to just barely make out the same mark under her right eye.
Same photographer as the July 22 photo - Issam Kobeisy.
Hmmmmm...
clematus -> i think you've hit the nail on the head.
AP gave photographers a bonus of $500 for the qana photos:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21885&only&rss
I hope they had a long angle lens, because if she hasn't changed clothes between picture (she has the same dress on) then she has the gift that keeps on giving....
Let's see-- she has the same facial features, is the same age, is wearing clothes with the same red on black zig-zag markings, has the same facial mannerisms, is prone to the same broad gestural motions, ties her scarf in the same position... I'd say it's just random and the two are long-lost twin sisters separated at birth. Arab stringers wouldn't lie, would they?
You guys are missing the point! Look, from what I see, the Reuters and AP photographers probably shot this same woman from the same scene on the same day, most likely July 22, 2006.
However, in an effort to distort the news with propoganda, the AP editor chose, at random, a photo to depict that Israel continues to bomb innocent Lebonese destrying their homes...
WITHOUT ANY PROOF OF THE SUCH.
As proof, they try to pass a photo that is nearly 2 weeks old off as happening on August 5th.
This is the AP offering propoganda of the worst type to slant the outcome of the news.
I'll say...there's a good chance it's the same woman.
But first, find me a Lebanese woman who DOESN'T dress like that. I can also believe in a general tendency to gesture in a similar manner.
But I also remember Mohammed al-Dura, the little kid who was the subject of a France2 documentary. There are actors, and cameramen who specialize in fakery.
CERTAINLY there is enough evidence for a careful news agency to PULL BOTH STORIES pending further clarification.
Steve O
Oh, gosh, Anonymous aka Steve O - thank you for your considered opinion, but isn't it way past your bedtime?
Yikes! Oh, wait.
It's only 9:48ph where I'm at (Michigan, USA). Is the server in Europe?
Steve O
Let's put it this way, SteveO-- If I hired a model to pose for a figure drawing session and Model #1 got sick after the first session, it wouldn't exactly bother me that Model #2 showed up the same day and happened to be wearing precisely the same clothing and had the same facial features, age, weight, build, scars, mannerisms and demeanor. The fact that she new the same poses would also be a plus.
Of course, I'd only consider it happy coincidence or good karma.
Well said. I think it's probably the same person. But even if it's not proven, it's POSSIBLY the same person. The most AP/Reuters can say is that it's not proven.
The question is whether AP and Reuters will have the guts to pull stories and photos that are questionable, or if they're going to try to pretend that the smoke photo was a one-time slip up.
After a week of reviewing models for sketchwork, I'm willing to say conclusively that it's the same woman. The laugh lines are identical, everything is identical except the frames and attributions.
If there was some outrageous coincidence that had her bombed out twice on two different days in two different bombings and she just happened to be found by two different photographers from two different news services, I'd find that remarkable. More likely, the stringers have a stable of reliable models or they just use different names and outlets for selling the same shoots.
I'll accept your expertise as someone who spends a lot of time looking at faces. I can't always tell if the models in clothing catalogs are the same. But the question is: What will AP/Reuters do about it?
They have a decision to make -- pull all the questionable pictures and stories for an immediate hit to their credibility, or try to wait it out, risking a bigger hit to their credibility.
As long as the mainstream outlets don't pick it up, they might think it can just blow over. Eventually this will be old news. So, don't look to them to be honest until they are forced to be so.
Okay, now it IS getting to be my bedtime...
Cheers!
Steve O
I think it is clearly the same woman.
Besides the two cheek features pointed out above, there is also:
1 - the right nostril is smaller than the left one on both pictures
2 - the left cheek/mouth curve has the same s-curve proportions on both pics
3 - the eyebrows in both pics have a (weird) high placement on the forehead
4 - the incisor under her right nostril is pronounced in both pictures
5 - her teeth to the right of that incisor recede in both pictures
6 - the lower lip juts out identically in both pics
However, I think it more likely they were taken on different days.
1 - the headscarf is much looser at the top in the 7-22 pic
2 - the knot around the neck-chin area is black in the 7-22 pic and patterned in the 8-05 pic
(Although I admit the same day is still a possibility, but perhaps hours apart?)
Oh, and one more thing. There is also the zig-zag finish at the cuff of her black under-robe.
I wish I could prove this to be the case, but I have seen this sort of thing before: First on September 11th, when the Philistines were dancing in the street. There was a brief shot of a woman in a hijab with large squarish rimmed glasses. She was ululating and tossing candy to children and dancing with them on a sidewalk. The reason she stands out so vividly in my memory is that she looks like my sister in law in the face. So much so, that I was startled to see her face a few months later, this time having been accused falsely by her son as a collaborator. There was a picture of her standing against a mattress, or wallpaper that looked like a mattress, same face, same exact glasses, no ululating, no smile, no dancing, total distress, still looking like my sister in law. She was shot by the Palestinians and all that was left was a photo of a bloody mattress.
My God she is unlucky. She's Shelley the well known brothel madame of downton Beirut. Supplies all the Hezbollah with their young boys for the use of.
Jauhara:
Thank you for sharing the happy ending!
"She was shot by the Palestinians and all that was left was a photo of a bloody mattress."
Update 10.30pm. The BBC is currently using that second picture. Twice. On one page.
They're not even trying to hide their fake news anymore, are they?
I think the simplest explanation here is that both pictures are of the same woman and were taken on the same day, most likely by the same person (the rueters photographer). I believe the Reuters and AP guys know each other and together are pulling off this scam to make extra money. So the reuters guy gives the AP guy some of his photos (the ones he didn't send to reuters), and tells him he can use them two weeks later if there's another bombing. The AP guy probably returns him the favor by sharing his unpublished photos. That's how they increase their profits without having to work too hard. I also believe that in general a lot of photographers reuse photo they took themselves at a later date. That's the easiest thing to do and hardest to discover.
I was just kind of struck by what Jauhara said a couple of comments above. She mentions after 9/11 how the "Philistines" were dancing in the streets... I have seen this term used a lot by Arabs and others as an attempt to attach the modern Palestinian people to the ancient Philistines of Bible times and their land. This is false. Most scholars (including Palestinians) refute this claim. All traces of the Philistines as a people or ethnic group disappear around the Neo-Babylonian Empire (627 BC). It has been suggested that the Philistines formed part of the great naval confederacy, the "Sea Peoples", who had wandered, at the beginning of the 12th century BC, from their homeland in southern Greece and the Aegean islands to the shores of the Mediterranean and repeatedly attacked Egypt during the later Nineteenth Dynasty. British writers of the 19th century and very early 20th century sometimes referred to the Arabs of Palestine as "Philistines". This was apparently not due to a belief in a strong connection with the ancient Philistines, but merely reflects the former convention that "Philistine" simply denotes "native of "Palestine". The name of the region of Palestine comes, via Greek and Latin, from the Philistines. I can go on, but please do your own research if you’re interested in this history. Peace…
You ought to retitle this article. I think a more appropriate title would be:
The Bitch is Back
You potted history is essentially accurate. You neglected the most salient point, however. The name "Palestine" was given to the area by a very savvy Roman psy-ops advisor to the Emperor.
After the razing of Jerusalem and its rebadging as "Aeolia Capitolina", the Romans sought out the name of the Israel's most potent enemy -- the Philistines (the traitor Josephus Flavius probably had a hand in this one).
Hence, the land was re-named "Palestrina" to add ultimate insult to ultimate injury.
I think Green Helmet got on the phone: "Mom, whaddya doing right now?"
Here"s another Lebanon-based photographer who has some explaining to do:
http://dof.skynetblogs.be/?date=20060807&number=298&unit=weeks#3571152
is that the same woman as prominantly featured on this photogs blog site?
http://www.snappertalk.com/index.php/20060728/beirut-lebanon-photo-gallery/#comments
you know .. ben curtis .. the guy of the blown off arm photos
Here's an Adnan Hajj photo captioned July 16,2006 (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060716/ids_photos_wl/r2616182136.jpg) being used to illustrate a Reuters story dated August 7, 2006 (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3287452,00.html) AFTER he's been "fired".
Come on ! Don't underestimate the power of the MSM in the "Age of (mis)Information. Can't you just see what would have happened that made the good-folks-at-Al-Reuters dirty their hands doing such stuff.
The Israeli's have been careful, a little too careful if you ask me, in their bombings this time round. So much so, that they started dropping leaflets fortnights in advance of bombing Hezbollah positions.
The following is the transcript of a conversation held between Hassan Nassrallah and his media advisors at his secure undisclosed location somewhere in Tehran. The translation in English captures the gist of the conversation, although the unique Arabic dialectic inflections would be sorely missing.(Author's Note:-The author insists that the conversation is genuine and is obtained by the same means that the various venerated news agencies obtain their news and photoshops(oops! ..he..he...photographs))
The time of the conversation has not been revealed to the Author by his source.
Hassan Nassrallah and his media advisors(identified only as M.A. 1, 2 & 3) and his political advisor(identified as P.A.) and his strategic affairs advisor( identified as S.A.A.) at their secure undisclosed location in Tehran:
Hassan Nassrallah: By the Grace Of Allah, The Most Benevolent and the Most Magnificient! How is the Israeli bombing campaign going.
Media Advisor 1: By the Grace of Allah,etc. etc. etc. They have started the first phase of their campaign.
H.N.: Have they bombed Beirut as yet?
Strategic Affais Advisor:By the Grace of etc..etc..etc. No. They are still in the first phase of their campaign.
H.N.: So are they concentrating on South Lebanon?
S.A.A: No! In the first phase of their campaign the Israeli's are dropping leaflets.
H.N.: Leaflets! So the infidels are once again targetting our Noble Prophet. Like the Ayatollah has always said, the Danes were part of a Zionist-American Conspiracy. We ought to have torched a few more western embassies during the Cartoon Jihad!
S.A.A: No they are not dropping cartoon leaflets. The leaflets contain detailed time table of the Israeli bombing raids and instructions for the people of those places to evacuate.
H.N.: Evacuate! That would be a disaster!
S.A.A.: Oh yes! The Stupid-Zionist-Enemy has already forwarned us of their evil plans. We can remove all our people from the region well before the Zionist machine starts their terror campaign.
H.N.:(To S.A.A.) You stupid son of cross-eyed illegitimate camel! I was talking about the civilians evacuating! If our brave Mujahiddeen don't stop them from leaving soon enough we are heading for a Public Relations Disaster. (To self) Remind Ayatollah not to straddle me with half baked Revolutionary Guards masquerading as Strategic Analysts.( To Media Advisors) We must organize campaigns at the earliest and make sure that no one leaves their homes before the Zionists start bombing and make doubly sure that those who leave should be housed as close as possible to our Weapons Depots.
M.A.2: In the name of Al..
H.N.: Quiet!I am getting tired of this s--t. You don't have to repeat all that s--t everytime you start speaking!
M.A.2: I was just wondering whether the people would buy it that easily. Who would want to expose themselves to 100 ton bombs.
H.N.: The how else would you explain uneding lines of volunteers at our recruitment camps? This time around we will tell them that those who die will get double their share of virgins, if they die fighting.
Make sure to assure the civilians that the Zionists won't strike civilian facilities. Not with a PM who has a hippie moonbat for a daughter.
M.A.3: In the ...( seeing his boss frothing, he lets it trail off) But what about civilian casualties?
H.N.: That will be a disaster!
M.A.3: So many civilians dying in the bombing will be a disaster.
H.N.: No you son-of-a-cross-legged-camel ! Civilians not getting killed will be a disaster.(Notes to self) Remind Basshar not to press me with his retarded in-laws as media managers.
M.A.3: But what about our credibility?
M.A.1: Our credibility depends on how many civilians we get killed in the bombing before our forces get wiped off.
S.A.A.: That is correct. The sooner we take the death toll to the thousands the sooner we can get the U.N. to end this war.
M.A.3: But what about our Mujjahiddin. Won't they die too?
M.A.2: Yes! But they would get counted as civilians.
M.A.3: But won't our fighting force diminish?
S.A.A.: You are still a novice when it comes to war.exactly what we That's want. We want our fighting force to diminish so that we can get new volunteers for the Cause. Besides, our Mujahiddin are getting older anyway and our pension fund is not exactly bursting at the seams. This way we give them a premature retirement without pension and get a great recruiting video.
H.N.: Send a circular to all personnel to get as many journalists as possible to tour the bombed out sites.
M.A.3: But what about them sighting our weapons? Won't they create a fuss about that?
M.A.1: Which numbskull ever let you in here! Not in their lives. The journalists who come across any weapons would make sure that they are the first to arrive at the site in case it gets bombed. It works better for them that way.
M.A.3: When will our brothers in Iran and Syria join us in our fight?
S.A.A: This fellow will be the end of us! Iran and Syria will defend us to the last- thats why they won't join the fight!
M.A.3: You have me confused here. How can they defend us to the last if they won't join the fight?
S.A.A.: You miss the entire point. Iran and Syria can only survive to defend us to the last only in case they don't join the fight.
M.A.3: I still have my doubts.
H.N.: This guy is asking too many questions....We should send him
as our liason to Lahoud. That way we can keep Lahoud engaged and this numbskull can get somebody who answers his stupid questions with more stupid questions.
"This woman owns a lot of houses, so far she has only reacted to the destruction of 3 of them. When Israel hits one of the remaining 7, she'll be in the news again."
-BBC Official
Dang, I came up with that line thinking I was original and funny, only to notice that Ace made the same joke 2 lines below his link to you :(
I hate that.
Adnan Hajj himself took a picture of the same woman. See http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060806/photos_ts/2006_08_05t072545_450x325_us_mideast
Hey, this is a GREAT way to increase body counts!
Repeat them or just make them up!
Check out this statement - "should be the speech by Ehud Olmert" written by Ben Caspit - Israeli author who writes for Maariv newspaper.
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART1/457/743.html
Highly recommended - a good read.
Bullwhip
Dude! That "woman" is just Palpetine/Darth Sidious in drag.
Dont hold your breath till these scabby news agencies do anything honorable. There not that stupid that this was a mistake.Anyone that believes anything from this deck is nuts.
It finally was revealed that it is the media that is destroying Lebanon and that have bombed 169 bridges in Lebanon and leveled thousands of homes to the earth... My my my, so it appears that the peaceful secular democratic state of all its inhibitants (Jews and non Jews) that is also known as Israel isn't bombing Lebanon... So the Israeli generals are letting go with Hezbollah's attacks on the Israeli civilians! shame on them really, they gotta do something these peaceful gens....
Are we at all sure that this is actually a woman?
Looks like mrs. Green Helmet to me.
I emailed al-Beeb about the use of the woman's image and the fact that she has now lost two houses in the space of two weeks - poor thing. They have changed the image, though I'm betting that they won't be emailing back to me (or any one else who complained) to say thanks.
Does anyone else notice a striking resemblance to Gollum in LOTR?
Anon 5:35AM
But they are philistines in the modern sense of the word.
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The Hizbollah story of Qana is unraveling further.
A French language Lebanese publication, citing an unnamed source in Hezbollah, has claimed that the organization placed a rocket launcher on the roof of the notorious building in Qana to provoke an Israeli attack and brought invalid children inside to serve as victims and blacken Israel's name.
The wheels are coming off.
Those photos seem to have been taken in front of a bluescreen. If you can look closely you might be able to spot it. Someone might want to look into some anaylsis to prove it.
But in the case of the first photograph, there seems to be little continuity between the figure in front and the background. The focus isn't quite what you would expect. The second photograph seems like it might have some lighting discrepencies.
re Ararat's mention of the jewish traitor Josephus. When Emperor Hadrian changed the name of Judea to Palestrina in 135 AD, Josephus was was born around 37 AD would be quite elderly, he died around 100 AD.
"...and brought invalid children inside to serve as victims..." Note to Green Helmet:If you wanted to borrow my little yellow bus, i could have painted Qana Special Ed School on the side....
Could it be another nail? Is this the same woman?
Look at picture #12 on the Rooters "Protests Against Israeli Attacks On Lebanon" (http://photos.reuters.com/Pictures/default.aspx). Looks very similiar to me.
Buy-to-let is taking a pounding in Hizbollahtown
Another clue. Look at the shape of her nostrils. You can't see the left and right are different from each other, but exactly the same in the two photos. (left-left and right-right).
Your so pathetic!!!
Go yourself in the battle zone and take your own pictures, but I think you prefer to be behind your screen and speculate on images (less stressfull hein). While people die by hundreds you enjoy your ice cream and play video games. What a pity!!
Tell me why the liberal media trust in the toilet now?? lol...
One thing that still remains, the death toll to the Lebanese is still far greater than that of the 'put upon, we are so weak and defenceless with all our American weapons flown through the UK Israeli's'.
Also not reported by the news very heavily is the fact that the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers were in fact on Lebenese soil. Yet another incursion into a land only just recovering from the fighting of the eighties.
Oh and that UN peace deal, yeah, allows the Israelis to remain on Lebanses soil. Hang on, is this deja vu. Rewind... back to the 80's. Lebanon - occupied state?
Definition of terrorist: someone who is not armed by the West.
I am not from either of these regions and do not endorse war, I can read though....
PERSPECTIVE PEOPLE!!!
congrats DFH on getting the link from LGF.
well done mate.
top post as well!
"I am not from either of these regions and do not endorse war, I can read though...."
you obviously havent read about the Hezbollah rocket attack on northern israel that day. funny how you leave out certain details to fit your perspective on events.
Classified: Seeking someone with extensive photoshop experience. Must have lots of experience in altering photos. Please call me between the hours of 2-3 AM in the hezballa headqaurters or Email me at editorinchief@reuters. Jews and Republicans need not apply.
Charles Martel: Er, hello!!! You agree with the rest of my argument.
I reiterate, the loss of life in Lebanon FAR outweighs that of the Israelis. Please, quote me some figures since the conflict, go on. I think it is ten Lebanese dead for every Israeli, although I could be wrong, the ratio could now be even higher 15-1?
Er, you got anymore bullsh£t?
Now where the hell did you put that dradle, I'd stick to playing that and close your eyes to the, as any impartial observer would agree 'excessive force' used by the Israelis.
You can keep 'Zion'.
It's just not fair, is it? I mean, all the Lebanese did was let Hezbollah launch a few thousand rockets targeted at Israeli civilians from their soil.
Oh, why can't the Israelis just die like good little J-o-o-s?
/sarc (duh!)
A landlord who rents a house to a gang-banger who builds a meth-lab in the garage and runs a crack-den in the living room really has no excuse to complain when the cops bust down the door.
Liberals and Reuters are exactly alike, they change history with a clone brush. Damn liberal cloners!
So, I take it the Friends of Hizbullah who can't post on LFG are spewing here?
Idiot you can't get anything right. I told you to post as follows in the classifieds: Seeking someone with extensive photoshop experience. Must have lots of experience in altering photos. Please call me between the hours of 2-3 AM in the hezballa headqaurters or Email me at editorinchief@reuters.com Jews, MEL GIBSON and Republicans need not apply. Signed, CEO of reuters
She looks like Uncle Fester's sister.
i was going to say unfreakingbelievable but it actually isn't at all anymore.
What a bad fake, how could this get past the editors? JJB
Normally, I don't flame bad spellers, but when they offending party choses a handle of "Literate". I can't resist.
I reiterate, the loss of life in Lebanon FAR outweighs that of the Israelis. Please, quote me some figures since the conflict, go on. I think it is ten Lebanese dead for every Israeli, although I could be wrong, the ratio could now be even higher 15-1?
Hey "Literate":
We in the civilized world would like to see the ratio go to at least 1000:1, camel jockey to Israeli.
Take that rag off your head and wake up, boy.
The only reason Israeli death tolls are far less then the Lebanese is because Israel saw fit to build bomb shelters for their people. Also most of Lebanon's death toll is probably due to dead Hezbollah fighters, except of course the poor children they used for propaganda purposes and those citizens that were forced to remain behind, again, probably at gun point.
in the second pix she actually is reacting to pigeons that are about ready to unload on her.
has anyone seen the pix of the Party of G?d army marching?
is it any conincidence that pretty much all of them are hot?
or maybe i had too much tequilla while watching the newscast on my birthday a few days ago LOL
I would advise her to buy some "Head On" (that pesky commercial playing on CNN over and over)
Actually I would recommend a NEW product that has yet to hit the market.
HOME ON!....APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE BOMB SITE!
At least it will appear the image isn't so bad when you look again
The more important question is....Who was the agent that sold her TWO mutli-dwelling properties in -- of all places -- BEIRUT?
But I'm sure it's a challenge to look up history on real estate for Beirut. Those buildings "in question" probably rose from the rubble more than once in the past 10 years.
In most situations you can buy Flood Insurance, and Earthquake insurance. What about Bomb insurance? Must be pricey. Huge deductibles. No matter how you slice it it seems like a lousy investment.
I'd invest in new clothes for the next pic.
Aah! I was just wondering what happened to the Emperor from "The Return of the Jed-eye".
He needs a new makeup application bad.
Instead of babbling on here on this inconsequential site, if you have a problem with when and by whom the photo was taken, why don't you contact Reuters and ask for a clarification? The embedded metadata in a digital photo will tell you exactly when it was taken, besides other identifying characteristics. What a bunch of lazy-ass wankers!
Islamic culture also has a tradition of professional mourners at funerals. It's probably her off-camera job.
You're funny. Looks like the Pot is trying to Call The Kettle Black.
It's a free country and free speech is quite wonderful. Hard to do when you're wanking but still wonderful.
We're not lazy ass wankers! It takes a lot of work to respond to finger-pointers like you. We have a WHOLE team of writers coming up with a meaningful response to your overly harsh criticism :>)
As far as contacting Reuters, seems like they are having credibility issues as we speak. They might just borrow YOUR response. I emailed it to them just in case.
I have seen her picture on a Lebanese Real Estate web site. I think she's an Agent in her "day job" and a "shock and awe" actor on the weekeends.
Have I got the perfect house for you!
Oh no. Looks as if this site has attracted some stragglers from the semi-literate troll brigade (Daily Kos? MPACUK?).
The format and content are all-too-predictable.
"yo u lazy-ass zionist bush luvvers neo-con nazis lol lol why don't u get a job or r u still at school lol lol...get a life lol lol or a girl...or r u a queer lol lol..."
Yes. It the monkeys-with-typewriters syndrome.
2 different women wearing the same clothes and who just happen to look alike... I laughed my backside off. BBC definately avoided a train wreck by changing the pics on that page.. Move over Reuters, CNN is out to take the Jackass award!
"Instead of babbling on here on this inconsequential site, if you have a problem with when and by whom the photo was taken, why don't you contact Reuters and ask for a clarification? The embedded metadata in a digital photo will tell you exactly when it was taken, besides other identifying characteristics. What a bunch of lazy-ass wankers!"
In this case it's the classic example of SLUGS with an internet connection. Or is it slime that came before slugs in the evolutionary ladder?
Monkeys is way too generous dude.
"....2 different women wearing the same clothes and who just happen to look alike... I laughed my backside off. BBC definately avoided a train wreck by changing the pics on that page.. Move over Reuters, CNN is out to take the Jackass award!...."
You kindly forgot to mention they shop at the same Kay-Martt and they used the same real estate agent.
Pity.
Looks like the "next big thing" is to get rich in Beirut real estate. Is it possible to sell short?
THIS TELLS THE STORY.....READ ON.
A Lebanese woman wails after looking at the wreckage of her APARTMENT, in a building, that was demolished by the Israeli attacks in southern Beirut July 22, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisi (from Yahoo News)
A Lebanese woman reacts at the destruction after she came to inspect her HOUSE in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, after Israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed the area overnight.
SO....the real issue is in the first pic she has an apartment and in the second pix she has a house.
Multiple real estate owner in a bomb sensitive area.
What's the going price for rubble these days?
> We in the civilized world would like to see
> the ratio go to at least 1000:1, camel jockey to Israeli.
What in the world is civilized about a 1000:1 death ratio?
Oh - and have you got a nice slur for a person from Israeli, or is your civilized vocabulary limited?
Stupid morons! first of all in the official death toll they list say "200 israeli soldiers and 400 israeli civilians killed" then by lebanon its 1000 lebaneese civi's killed.
uhhh can we get a "1000 lebaneese camel humping terrorist killed"
Staging a pic is old stuff... I'll tell you because ive had my pic taken by reuters / AP fotogs hundreds of times and I allways come out looking like I was oppresing some poor arabs.
funny how these fukers in south lebanon are potrayed as hero's for refusing to leave.
This war is pissing me off. I say we just bomb all of lebanon and turn it into a refuge camp for the worthless arabs.
Yeah I definatly need a job, oh wait I have a business and I am in law school.
Ever been to gaza ? or the west bank or jerusalem?
I never saw a arab with a job. They just sit around all day wanking over their goats and blaming the evil joooooos.
How many lebaneese does it take to change a light bulb ? nada they just photoshop the bulb and it looks like its back on.
Whats a hot chick in lebanon ?
A israeli soldier.
Why must arab women cover their faces ?
Trust me if your wife was THAT nasty youd force her to to the same!
How do arabs practice safe sex ?
They mark a X on the goats that kick.
How many arabs does it take to change the light bulb ?
None they just sit around and blame the evil joooooos.
Oh, I see. If Israel lost more people, then it would be more civilized? What about the Allied bombing of Japan? That surely was not "civilized" right? But who hired these trolls to be actuaries of war? Who decides what is civilized when it comes to numbers of dead? Is not the point of war to annihilate your enemy, to crush him? And P.S. if you believe the numbers that the MSM tells you, then your problem is one of source data.
The lebanese who have died are not innocent, they aided and abetted terrorist which makes them legitamate targete, not to mention they were warned to leave, and the ones that said they had not place to go, camping in a refugee camp sure beats dieing!!!
Don't you infidels see the miracle that Allah has created? Instead of 72 virgins, it's two wailing maidens.
Keith;
you do know that the metadata can be altered after the fact, right???
All the threads are good even the sand-niger lover. The photos are a scam, and yes war is hell.
The "joo's"( as you spell it)sould just nuke the fukers and send them all to alla and them 100 vergins who look like the "handsome" lady in queston.
ALL IS FAR IN WAR even if it's civilized or not.
one last thought...
Who is calling this a holy war,,,, not us, but the rag heads there the ones calling the people to fight and kill the inicent, if it's to hot in the kichen GET FUK OUT, and learn to live with every body, or be the man and die like a man standing up for what "YOU" believe in not what your told to believe. If you believe in killing people with suiside bombs, your up for nuking
What if the reality is that the actual images are much worse and that causes the occidental media to fake stuff? I've seen some first hand images that the arabs want you to see and they were much worse than these and did not seem tricked
WHY DOES'T ISRAEL DEMAND 'UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER' OF THIS RABBLE ONCE AND FOR ALL?
Some of the comments on the doctored photographs are extremely funny. I can see that the trolls have come out of their hiding place again. Someone should tell them to pull their heads in ;-)
After seeing the doctored pictures of Qana, I believe that the death toll of civilians killed in Lebanon should be revised downwards - to 2 poor little children who have become a macabre cause celebre for a bunch of murderous looney bins who deserve to be bombed out of existence.
I linked to your story from It's not Photoshopping - it's al-Taqiyya
hey Anon at 5:10pm. So why can't trolls have fun too?
I think we are all here for the same reason. To express our frustration about the absurdity of this whole thing and on top of it the Arab world constantly crying on TV (about fake bomb reports that MASSACRE 40 people but really it's only 1 == ok reverse tears and backtrack on national TV) and then the fake pix of virgins (above) who look like drag queens that own 100's of bombed out homes and apartments in Beirut. how many of ARE there of this lady?
Who would buy there in the first place let alone live there?
Some of these poor people can't get out. they are too old and too broke or just plain patriotic. And of course you hear ALL the Rhetoric about the Arab guys who are STUCK there in these bombed out hell holes who will glady die for Hezz-bollywood if the Israeli troops happen to skip thru their town.
they do need to brush up on their acting and modeling though.
Where is Anna Nicole Smith when you really need her?
And stop using civilians as pieces of meat for hungry wolves to chase down. Notice I didn't say "Innocent" civilians.
Guerilla warfare? Hmmmmmmmmm.....i think it's clearly a less manly approach to war. it's like sucker punching someone.
One minute you appear to be a goat and the next minute you look like a "virgin" (like our super model above) and the next minute you look like a Hezbolla guy.
too many costumes for Israel to figure out.
I can't beleive that people still get MAD about bombings and people dying after 1000's of years of regional conflict that has ever YET to have a peace plan STICK.
it's like nailing jello to a tree.
so get over it already. it's all about EGO now.
let's see who lowers their rockets first.
and what if there were 72 virgins who look like our supermodel above? i'm sure that you'd have many young men strapping on bomb belts by the thousands.
count me in!
why are these guys wasting their time as photojournalists? Comedy central could seriously use these guys..
It's definitely Darth Vader's mom. I swear. I met her on a recent trip to the Death Star.
Drew
I think you are right about that but if they n