When dullards run enemy propaganda (updated)
Rocco DiPippo, AT contributor and blogger at The Autonomist, spotted enemy propaganda in the press, as delivered by the incompetent information warriors at French news agency AFP. Although we don't like to post news agency photos out of respect for copyright laws, this particular photo is the subject of the news story, so we violate our normal policy and post it.
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.
BULLETS THAT HAVE BEEN FIRED AND HAVE ACTUALLY HIT SOMETHING OR SOMEBODYBULLETS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN FIRED AND HAVE NOT HIT ANYTHING UNLESS THEY WERE THROWN AT SOMETHING OR SOMEBODY

Since no such Coalition artillery was in use anywhere near the site, the shell had been moved to the spot and posed. The problem with such crude propaganda fakery is that some people, say the average New York Times subscriber, share the same ignorance of journalists when it comes to nasty items like guns and military equipment. Eventually, The NYT corrected the item, but did not note the obvious fact that the shell was dragged to the site and posed with the child as a propaganda exercise uncritically disseminated by the Times.
Update: Separated at birth? (hat tip: Lucianne.com poster Hopster)
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)Both pictures from Drinking From Home


Blackfive has made some of the same connections, and offers this classic: Flat Fatima

Update: Suitably Flip has the perfect follow-on for AFP. (hat tip: Bryan at Hot Air)