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Latest update at 3 p.m. Eastern Agence France-Presse has retracted the image as “apparently digitally altered.” More developments at the bottom of the post.
(The New York Times) – As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo was used on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.
A picture released by Iran's Revolutionary Guards showed four missiles rising during a test-firing in the Iranian desert. (AFP/Getty Images
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I don’t blame Iran for trying to appaear more miltarily competent than they are. Not with American support for terrorists within their borders. Not with Israeli military maneuvers to simulate an attack on Iran in May. Not with US special forces operating inside their territory. Not with rumors that the US has allowed Israeli planes to land at its bases in Iraq in preparation for a possible strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
I doubt their missile tests will do anything to stop the plans that American and Israeli political and military leaders are fashioning, but I understand why they did them. Unfortunately such actions only increase the likelihood of war in my opinion, since it allows the Bush and Omert administrations to paint the Iranians as reckless and bloodthirsty. The provocations that led to these missile tests, of course are being conveniently ignored by our media.
No one can disagree. That’s why I oiled up a couple of old bikes that my wife and I will take out for a test run this weekend. But that’s it. No more bomb shelters and stuff like that. We were snookered by the Soviet scare, but never again. Well, we figure nobody wants to turn Michigan into toast anyway. The automotive companies have done enough as it is.
No one can disagree. That’s why I oiled up a couple of old bikes that my wife and I will take out for a test run this weekend. But that’s it. No more bomb shelters and stuff like that. We were snookered by the Soviet scare in the 50s, but never again. Well, we figure nobody would want to turn Michigan into toast anyway. The automotive companies have done enough in that direction as it is.
And oh, those aren’t ballistic missiles, they’re defensive SAMs.