There’s a story, and a back story here.
Secretary of State John Kerry opened his speech Friday by describing the horrors victims of the chemical weapon attack suffered, including twitching, spasms and difficulty breathing. Attempting to drive the point home, Kerry referenced a photograph used by the BBC illustrating a child jumping over hundreds of dead bodies covered in white shrouds.
Now, this is a problem. The problem is that the BBC, being a typical member of the propaganda outfits for statists, called the Main Stream Media by some Lame Stream Media, by others, lie. The BBC, CNN, NBC, ……. and on and on…. they lie. Especially when it comes to conflicts in the Mid-East. You cannot trust their images. Green Helmet guy taught us that.
Here’s the story about the BBC’s usage of the picture above ……
By marcodilauro on June 9, 2012 in blog
BBC mistakenly runs dated Iraq photo to illustrate the syrian massacre
Somebody have been using illegaly one of my images for anti syrian propaganda on the BBC web site front page
On Sunday May 27 at 0700 am London time on of my image which I took in Al Mussayyib in Iraq on March 27, 2003 which caption is below was front page on BBC web site illustrating the massacre that happen in Houla the Syrian town and the caption and the web site was stating that the images was showing the bodies of all the people that have been killed in the massacre and that the image was received by the BBC by an unknown activist. Somebody is using my images as a propaganda against the Syrian government to prove the massacre.
Al Musayyib, Iraq – May 27, 2003. An Iraqi child jumps over a line of hundreds of bodies, in a school where they have been transported from a mass grave, to be identified. They were discovered in the desert in the outskirts of Al Musayyib, 40 km south of Baghdad. It has been estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 Iraqis had been reported missing in the region south of Baghdad. People have been searching for days for identity cards or other clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters and even children who disappeared when Saddam’s government crushed a Shi’ite uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.
“I was surprised to see my image, which was captured in Iraq in 2003, used by the BBC in their recent article around the Syria massacre in Houla. It was reported that the image was captured and sent in by an activist; however this is not the case. I took the image in 2003, when working on a story titled Iraq, the Aftermath of Saddam, which can be viewed on my website:
http://www.marcodilauro.com/features/iraq-war/#num=content-413&id=album-16.
Below are all the links of different media which have been talking about the issue.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/06/06/244933/bbc-iraq-photo-massacre/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2012/05/houla_massacre_picture_mistake.html
http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.it/2012/05/citizen-journalism-fails-viewers-at-bbc.html
Thanks and best regards
Marco Di Lauro
Photographer Reportage by Getty Images
Okay, the photographer is being way to generous to the BBC, in my estimation. At the very least, it demonstrates that the BBC is sloppy and unable to properly vet their information. They are not a news source, but a source of propaganda.
But, now, what does this say about our Secretary of State, John Kerry? At worst, this is an unconscionable and deliberate act of deception attempting to sway opinion and garner support for the US to bomb and kill people.
At best, this demonstrates the State Department’s inability to make proper discernment about what is and isn’t happening in Syria! He has zero credibility!
You can read more about it here.
US’s Kerry caught using fake photos to fuel Syrian conflict
And copy and paste the urls above into your address bar. On a related note. Did you know other than using pictures from past wars our proof also includes 100 YouTube videos? (h/t Dirk)
“Proof” Assad Used Chemical Weapons Is One Hundred YouTube Clips: Full Report Attached
What the hell? Is Susan Rice going to make another tour of the LSM outlets?
Look people!!! Images and videos from that region are notoriously inaccurate and/or staged. Do not let our government lie to us!
My thanks to Kim for this information.
suyts space 
Even Putin says it’s BS….and I agree with him
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-sharply-steps-up-criticism-of-us-over-syria/2013/08/31/532c48ea-1238-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_print.html
As do I…
ME 3
“Okay, the photographer is being way to generous to the BBC, in my estimation. At the very least, it demonstrates that the BBC is sloppy and unable to properly vet their information. They are not a news source, but a source of propaganda. ”
I would go so far as to say that they are a lazy sloppy lard arsed propaganda sweatshop.
This is just getting better by the minute.
My GPS works again. Looks like the US destroyer crews are busy sunbathing.
You might want to print out maps for other occasions.
That’s not the problem. My stupid Google navi only updates the traffic info once it’s gotten my position. So on the days where GPD is distorted I only get an update after an hour of driving. That’s all.
OIC …..
But I enjoy using it as detector for approaching kinetic action.
thank goodness he didn’t beat his head on the pavement first…..
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/30/teen-arrested-for-stabbing-22-year-old-man-to-death-because-he-had-a-hard-day-and-wanted-to-kill-the-first-person-he-saw/
ACK!!!!!!!
“Police will charge King, who reportedly has a lengthy criminal history, with first degree murder.”
Ah, so you let them run around until they kill as well. Thought only Germans do that.
Nope, we roll that way, too.
But it is not a hate crime!
Piers,,
Got any pictures we can use to help justify the Syria thing?
Cheers, John.
Indeed!
+10 exactly
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
Here’s the thing… My government is asking me to approve war actions.
They lied about the picture. It was used deliberately – without vetting it.
They stated inflated numbers.
They don’t KNOW who the hell fired the gas.
If you want me to approve a war act – AT LEAST HAVE INTEL FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN CNN -BBC – etc
Creeps you have NSA – IRS snooping on everything I type – it looks like you’d use other than CNN – BBC
What’s that saying about NSA?
Yeah, I’m a little disappointed by this stupid youtube stuff as well; one would expect a professional empire to deliver at least some forged “intel dossier” or something.
They’re so lazy it beggars belief. Can’t they do anything right.
“They don’t KNOW who the hell fired the gas.”
You really think so? 😉
They know exactly.
“They’re so lazy it beggars belief. Can’t they do anything right.”
And repeating the poorly sourced info as i type.
You guys are the liars. Kerry never referenced that specific photo, he referenced bodies in white shrouds. There’s more than one picture of dead bodies in white shrouds, geniuses.
Read the links, genius.
For God’s sake… look at the date on the blog post, it’s from 2012! The BBC mistakenly used this photo over a year ago. It’s got nothing to do with Kerry.
Ahhhh yes, it’s an old picture…THAT KERRY referenced
It’s not only an OLD picture that Kerry referenced…. It Didn’t even come from Syria.
“Kerry referenced a photograph used by the BBC illustrating a child jumping over hundreds of dead bodies covered in white shrouds.”
AND the picture was taken in 2003
RTFM – He referenced it. It has everything to do with him.
Do you read much?
Yes, I’m aware of the date. Read the supporting links in the post and in the comments. Or are you saying our State is now above this sort of thing? I’m open to the possibility that news sources are wrong. All you have to do is show them to be so.
illiteracy might be a tad higher than I thought….
“Kerry referenced a photograph used by the BBC illustrating a child jumping over hundreds of dead bodies covered in white shrouds.”
Another link …. http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_08_31/USs-Kerry-caught-using-fake-photos-to-fuel-Syrian-conflict-6127/?from=menu
I’m open – prove it wrong!
We provided links. EVEN the original Photographer
DO we have another pigeon?
No… I can’t get him to answer 🙂
HERE IS THE PHOTOGRAPHER:
http://www.marcodilauro.com/blog/bbc-mistakenly-runs-dated-iraq-photo-to-illustrate-the-syrian-massacre/
http://www.marcodilauro.com/features/iraq-war/#num=content-413&id=album-16
Mr Kilgore: Can you tell me if this is correct?
WATCH THIS [ Paying attention to the body count by Kerry ].
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/videonetwork/2638924322001/Kerry-lays-out-evidence-against-Syria
Ah Ha a rough estimate! I am surprised he did not estimate to the tenths or hundredths of bodies, like his heroes do in Climatology!
Doctors without borders say 355 died
Nearly 80 percent want congressional approval on Syria
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=7033&cat=press-release
Now it’s interesting: The official release quotes DR without Borders figure of 3600…BUT dismisses the 355 figure.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/30/government-assessment-syrian-government-s-use-chemical-weapons-august-21
I know that! Kerry is so sure of his figures, just like the Climatologists! 😉
Yep!
😉
Mr. Kilgore???????????????????
If true, this is going to hurt!
http://clashdaily.com/2013/08/breaking-according-theexaminer-com-rebels-admit-gas-attack-result-mishandling-chemical-weapons/
http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-news-rebels-admit-gas-attack-result-of-mishandling-chemical-weapons
that makes more sense……
but didn’t they originally say there was mortar rounds or something?
Yes, but Obama is blaming Assad … not the rebels
I have heard so many rumors about the gas, I can no longer keep them all straight. It could as well have been Round-up or even DDT!
If Obama doesn’t have HARD evidence and Congress doesn’t demand it from him……. 😦
Ok, so by claiming mishandling they (the Obama administration) can evade accusations of plotting a false flag. Oh, Mr Obama, why does your ally Saudi even own Sarin? Nja… nja… crickets…
What a horrible, horrible ineptness.
🙂
Saddam had to send it somewhere!
ABSOLUTELY – AND with no label directions, it seems 🙂
miked1947 says:
August 31, 2013 at 2:13 pm
“Saddam had to send it somewhere!”
I seem to recall that Saddam used LOST on the Kurds.
anyway, Sarin is not difficult to make. When you can make pesticides you can make Sarin. The difficulty is the application – as those boys in the tunnel experienced.
I’ve said from the start we don’t know / have no hard evidence either way.
True!
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/61599/the-one-graph-that-sums-up-why-we-re-going-to-war-with-syria
This will xplain it all
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/is-barack-obama-mentally-unstable-the-worlds-leading-expert-on-narcissistic-personality-disorder-thinks-so
links back (over TWO stages) to
http://www.godsaveusa.com/obama.htm
notice the photos of Obama vs Mussolini side by side. Ouch.
Yep!
Yikes. On the same page:
“”On Memorial Day, 2008 (the then Senator Obama) told a group of veterans in Las Cruces, New Mexico his uncle fought during WW II and was part of the American Army that liberated the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz Poland:
“I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps, and the story in our family was …””
Well, shouldn’t surprise me. Maybe SOP for history-rewriting leftists.
Auschwitz, like all other extermination camps, is in Poland, which did get “liberated” by the Red Army.
http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2013/08/31/are-we-certain-assad-and-not-the-rebels-used-chemical-weapons/?subscriber=1
http://clashdaily.com/2013/08/syrias-mistake-25-quotes-coming-war-syria-every-american-see/
Ok have read on the issue. I see…
The rebels need US intervention. The last thing Assad wants is the US military involved against him. Evidence balance here strongly points to the rebels.
Kerry, as far as I know, did not specifically identify the rows of dead being jumped over by a child, which the BBC apparently falsely used. I have not seen what Kerry was refering to if it was not the BBC mistake. I have seen a photo of a row of dead, but not rowS of dead as shown in the BBC 2003 photo, falsely attributed to the current Syria situatuon. Bottom line, Kerry and the whitehouse could clear up this comment of Kerrys in a second if they have a different photo, that really is from the current situation, which matches his statement. (This administration does not like to clear up controversy) Evidence is somewhat neutral here, but if Kerry does not clear up, then it weighs against him.
Most of Kerrys comments are assertions without evidence. (Not helpfull for his case) Where is the time stamped photos of the missels being fired, and landing? Where is the intercepted Assad communication? Evidence ofjust assertions is weak.
There are many on the ground rumors of rebels making a mistake, of Saudis being involved. (Weak, but not supportive of Kery.
Past Obama ADMIN LIES MAKE kERRY CASE VERY WEAK. oBAMA ACTIONS HAVE APPARENTLY SUPPORTED THE mb IN THE PAST.
“The rebels need US intervention. ”
The rebels ARE the US / Saudi / Qatari intervention.
Without constant supply of arms and money from outside they would resort to being ordinary street thugs / drug gangs / petty thieves again; the mercenearies / libyan Al CIAda tourists would travel to a different US-sponsored hotspot.
Yeppers!
You, pretty much, have your finger on the pulse.
“Kerry referenced a photograph used by the BBC illustrating a child jumping over hundreds of dead bodies covered in white shrouds.”
I counted the bags in the photo, roughly, and they are at least 130. How many are outside the scope of the photo is unknown.
Wikipedia says the UN says there were 108 people killed. The article mentions lots of allegations from one side or the other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houla_massacre
Even the photo itself, or the UN account, are false; which one is unknown.
Lies heaped upon lies; recyclied by the BBC, recycled by Kerry.
Obama, and his administration haven’t figured out yet…. AFTER the lies / stalling of Benghazi – It sunk their ship of credibility. They need HARD evidence.
Propaganda is a statistical business. You want to crowd out the truth with a flood of lies. You want to numb the population with an incessant torrent of fabrications. The BBC and all other media don’t care about the truth making the rounds amongst a fringe of the population; they want to control the masses because that’s what counts in a democracy controlled by propaganda.
See what I have put in Tips&Notes; the account of Amber Lyon, ex CNN journo.
A GOOD READ:
http://shoebat.com/2013/08/31/obama-gets-cold-feet/