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Old 08-06-2006, 08:14 PM
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Default Re: Reuters Admits Altering Beirut Photo

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Originally Posted by Thematic-Device
A shaped charge could have made the main hole. It could have also been made by a number of other forms of weaponry.

It does not look like the work, however, of vandalism. Failing a wider shot, different angles, or better perspective, its impossible to say with any certainty what specifically hit the ambulances.
Couldn't the "main hole" have also been made by simply removing the big round rotating spotlight fixture?

The location of the "main hole" is quite telling isn't it?

Seems to me that being hit by a missile would have caused much more severe damage. (there would be bassically nothing left of the vehicle)

Again, you be the judge. Seems to me that the damage would have been much more severe if it was actually hit by a missle. Give me 10 minites with a maddox and I could do similar and much worse damage.

I'm not claiming to know how the hole got there, but I certainly don't think the story jibes.

But I do think that the theory that it was caused by a shaped charge is simply out of the question.
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Last edited by hairballxavier; 08-06-2006 at 09:44 PM.