REUTERSGATE!

Pajamas Media: REUTERSGATE! The Tipping Point First there are the rather troubling photos taken in Qana where the Hezbollah participated in a rather macabre photoshoot, using the bodies of young children in order to gain sympathy for their cause. Now we find that Reuters have been caught with their photographic pants down, as bloggers have once again proved that some of the photographs of victims of Israel's action over southern Lebanon have been staged. In this second case, a "distressed" woman was photographed wailing over the loss of her home on July 22 and the same woman was photographed again on August 5 lamenting the loss of her home after an Israeli bombing raid. Really? This begs the question of how reliable is any of the news reports that are coming out of southern Lebanon? How do we know that almost 60 died at Qana? We know that the body of one infant that looked more like he had been dead for at least a day was used over and over again in the hours after the building in Qana allegedly collapsed as a result of an Israeli strike. The air strike occurred at around 1.00 a.m. yet the building did not collapse until after 8.00 a.m.! How come? Is there another explanation as to how the building collapsed? The photographs of the dead bodies are also suspicious, and some bodies that were photographed do not look as though they were crushed by a building. Yet there are other questions regarding the body count at Qana: exactly how many times were these bodies counted? Was the building occupied by civilians? Were these people held in captivity within the building so that they could be used as fodder for publicity and attention seeking Hezbollah? There will be more on this subject as information becomes available, but in the meantime I will just take what I read and hear in the news with a grain of salt.