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18 April 2003: "No Cameras?"

I haven't slagged off CounterPunch in a while, so it's about time.
They're inordinately proud of this article: "Embedded Photographer: 'I Saw Marines Kill Civilians'"
You'd think an embedded photographer might have shot some photographs, wouldn't you? Yeah, so would I. Yet not one photo accompanies the article.

Actually, the original appeared in Le Monde, though for some reason CP didn't feel like putting in a direct link, despite the fact that an editorial note at one points says "SEE PHOTO IN LE MONDE." As it turns out, the Le Monde page is accompanied by one photograph, of what looks to be a less than fresh corpse. If this person was killed by the Marines Van der Stockt was embedded with, he apparently hung around for a few hours, if not days, before snapping this picture. Actually, the entire story makes no sense; the victim in the photo is supposedly an old man, who was bimbling along with his cane, oblivious to the fact that the Marines in question were machinegunning everything approaching their roadblock. Uh-huh, sure. No photos of these vehicles Van der Stockt claims the Marines shot up, no dead women and children.

The spirit of Mohammed Said al-Sahaf lives on.

PS. (18-Apr-2003, 1800LT) I received an e-mail from "Potter," who used to work in a funeral home mortuary; "Potter" concurs that the body in the photograph does not look recently deceased. In fact, he comments that at first glance it is not even evident that the deceased died of gunshots.
Thank you for the input, "Potter."

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