"Doctored" War Photos Provide Aid and Comfort to Enemy

Authored by JOHN W LILLPOP



Thanks to eagle eyed bloggers wary of main-stream media war coverage, the Reuters news service has been forced to concede that some of the photographs used in its coverage of the Middle East war were tampered with.

In a released statement, the wire agency announced the withdrawal of all 920 photographs by freelance Lebanese photographer, Adnan Hajj from its database. Source

Aside from the fact that a major news outlet fell victim to a hideous propaganda campaign, the real tragedy is that media has become so liberalized that such an outrageous fraud would even make it past the editor's cut.

After all, this is war-- and war is hell! Regrettably, innocent people, including women, children and the elderly, are killed during war.

Does anyone believe, for example, that all 100,000 Japanese killed in the bombing of Hiroshima were military combatants? And that that carnage included no children or women or elderly?

Another more recent example: Does anyone remember September 11, 2001? Of the 3,000 dead from that attack how many were civilians? More succinctly, were there any military casualties?

Avoiding civilian casualties is nearly impossible because Islamic jihadists deliberately place war-making weapons and men in the midst of civilian neighborhoods and mosques. They do so knowing that fanatics like Adnan Hajj, aided and abetted by the liberal U.S. media, will publish any and everything to make the United States and Israel appear evil.

What a pity that America's enemy in the war on terror includes news professionals-- reporters, photographers and editors-- who would rather advance anti-American propaganda than report the facts objectively.

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