Wow, that’s a really great find!
Please don’t get me wrong; it’s not that I disbelieve all of the ISIS atrocity stories or anything, but I do find myself half-expecting the media to start accusing them of throwing babies out of incubators, a’la the entirely phony PR blitz against Saddam in 1990. It seems like we’re in that space where public opinion is really being channeled into a frenzied bloodlust. These media stories may reflect a certain amount of reality, but they’re going all out to rally support for the upcoming campaign in Syria.
I think Catholic Philly must have used what is termed as a file photo. The same soldier as well seems to be in both photos. I’m not even sure if a US Soldier would be seen at current refugee camps.
It’s highly, highly dishonest, manipulative and deliberate plagiarism. You can’t print a photo caption like, “An elderly Iraqi woman fleeing violence gestures at the Al Waleed refugee camp in Iraq Aug. 19.” beneath a photo of a Palestinian woman taken 7 years ago and published elsewhere, and then claim it was an honest mistake. It’s the eternal story of “journalists” flushing their journalistic ethics down the toilet in order to make a case for war. As far as I’m concerned, these media shills have blood on their hands.
I don’t believe that at all unless we see the original story, this was something run on the Catholic Philly website. I even looked for the original story from Catholic News Service and could not find it. Hence, if a periodical or website runs a story on the Philadelphia Eagles and places a picture from a Philadelphia Eagles game 7 years ago, I’m not going to be jumping to conclusions.
I would guess that no U.S. Military has ever been stationed at the refugee camp, but were there at the time photos were taken as military escorts for Angelina Jolie and her entourage.