The small matter of the fake Boston Globe prison-abuse photos...
Evan Kirchhoff over at
101-280 has an excellent post-mortem of the supposed Iraq prison abuse photos - the ones with the CPA soldiers raping the Iraqi women.
The Boston Globe bought this as being real without the expediency of checking their sources. The sources for these photos turns out to be a Hungarian pron site called " sexinwar " (hint: add an http://www. and a .com to see what we are talking about)
Fortunately, another paper caught the mistake and brought this to people's attention:
bq.
Globe caught with pants down: Paper duped into running porn photos
The Boston Globe was reeling yesterday after graphic photos of alleged sexual abuse of Iraqi women by U.S. soldiers turned out to be staged shots from a hardcore porn Web site.
bq. "This photo should not have appeared in the Globe," editor Martin Baron said in a statement. "First, images portrayed in the photo were overly graphic. Second, as the story clearly pointed out, those images were never authenticated as photos of prisoner abuse. There was a lapse in judgment and procedures, and we apologize for it."
bq. The 'lapse' came after City Councilor Chuck Turner and perennial pot-stirrer Sadiki Kambon called a press conference in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal to display more purported abuse photos. Turner claimed they came from 'a very legitimate person' but admitted they hadn't been authenticated. Kambon said he got them from a representative of the Nation of Islam. Neither Turner nor Kambon returned calls.
But as Evan says:
bq. But hey, you've got the White House saying one thing, and some screaming guy from the Nation of Islam saying another -- who's to say what is true?
Posted by DaveH at May 19, 2004 11:15 PM