Here’s a photo from Agence France-Presse:
Here’s the caption:
An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people from an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq, officials said.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)
I will leave it up to our readers and ballistics experts to determine the veracity of the woman’s claim that these unfired, still-in-their-pristine-brass rounds struck her house.
Bryan at Hot Air emailed AFP:
You are currently running a photo identified as taken in Iraq. It depicts a woman holding two bullets, captioned as having struck her house during the course of a US-coalition raid. But as you can plainly see from the photo, the bullets are pristine and have never been fired. Perhaps your photographer and caption editor ought to be, though.
Heh.
Oh, and lest you give the photographer, Wissam al-Okaili, the benefit of the doubt, he’s done this kind of thing before.
UPDATE: Suitably Flip has a good one.
[Hat-tip: This Blog Is Full of Crap]
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It’s apparent this photographer has an agenda….could he be part of the oppostion, fueled by the opposition, lied to by the oppostion and paid by the good guys? What a concept.
Is that Dan Rather in a burkha?
Dude, don’t you read your own blog? If you did your hat tip would have been an LST commenter on the OC yesterday. Of course it may have been hard to find in amongst the other junk.
Matt, I posted a comment and link about this yesterday. Today, AFP has pulled an unbelievable stunt. They stole a photo off the US Central Command website and tried to sell it on their site.
See my link here:
http://lonestartimes.com/2007/08/17/friday-open-comments-23/#comment-190648
I guess we’ve resorted to just throwing bullets now. It saves so much time not having the fuss with pesky clips and such. Who needs all the noise anyway?
Dude has a blog?
#5
We throw them now so we don’t offend all Muslims.
#6,
Yes I do, but he meant other dude, which is not to be confused with Dude’s Sock Puppet which is of course an entirely different entity altogether. And none of us throw bullets.
Those bullets are fake but accurate!
Not The Dude. Just dude.
Those don’t appear to even be US milspec ammo. I believe the tips of current US ammo are colored red and orange for tracer, green for ball, black for armor piercing, light blue for incindiary….. correct me if I’m wrong.
Although Matt abides too.
“correct me if I’m wrong.”
/Enter epeejay
Speaker Nancy displays the dems military budget for 2008
#14 Heh, heh. That’s good.
Of course the people that the pic was meant to inflame hate firearms anyway, guns are evil ya know,like bush and the military they dont know a live round from a laundry basket…..
Soviet block 7.62×39 ammo that I have was never that clean and polished.
Some one with an agenda spent some time (and spit and polish)to advance a cause