rikzilla
Ninja wave: Atomic fire-breath ninja
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Link to picture and story...first one didn't work
That 2 Iraqi election workers were murdered in a daylight ambush on Baghdad's Haifa Street is not in itself unusual. Haifa street in Baghdad is infamous locally as home turf to some particularly nasty Saddam loyalists. That some 30 of them felt secure enough to stop traffic in broad daylight and murder the election officials while being photographed going about this grisly business unmasked is terribly troubling.
Obviously they wished to terrorize those Iraqi citizens unlucky enough to have been present. 30 men firing weapons and tossing hand grenades would be enough to terrorize the most hardened commando....how is it then that an AP photographer was able to stand calmly nearby and shoot a series of clear photographs?
Is the AP now "embedded" with the terrorists who are murdering election workers? If this was one incident that an AP photo journalist just happened to be in the right place at the right time, wouldn't he have run for his life like everyone else did? 30 guys firing weapons and throwing grenades...would you stand up straight and shoot such perfect pictures???
Now remember back to the infamous murders of those American security contractors in Fallujah....yep, all pictures courtesy of the AP.
Follow the link...(my attempt to post the pic failed for some reason.)...look at it and try and imagine how someone not under the protection of the terrorists could have taken it.
-z
That 2 Iraqi election workers were murdered in a daylight ambush on Baghdad's Haifa Street is not in itself unusual. Haifa street in Baghdad is infamous locally as home turf to some particularly nasty Saddam loyalists. That some 30 of them felt secure enough to stop traffic in broad daylight and murder the election officials while being photographed going about this grisly business unmasked is terribly troubling.
Obviously they wished to terrorize those Iraqi citizens unlucky enough to have been present. 30 men firing weapons and tossing hand grenades would be enough to terrorize the most hardened commando....how is it then that an AP photographer was able to stand calmly nearby and shoot a series of clear photographs?
Is the AP now "embedded" with the terrorists who are murdering election workers? If this was one incident that an AP photo journalist just happened to be in the right place at the right time, wouldn't he have run for his life like everyone else did? 30 guys firing weapons and throwing grenades...would you stand up straight and shoot such perfect pictures???
Now remember back to the infamous murders of those American security contractors in Fallujah....yep, all pictures courtesy of the AP.
Follow the link...(my attempt to post the pic failed for some reason.)...look at it and try and imagine how someone not under the protection of the terrorists could have taken it.
-z
