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Re: Fallujah in pictures
There's been much written in the media comparing "Fallujah in Pictures" as a counterpoint to the "US Military Slide Show".
http://www.juancole.com/2004/12/blog...s-air-war.html
...He contrasts the US military's powerpoint slides of the fighting in Fallujah (linked to at Soldiers for Truth) with Fallujah in Pictures, a web site hosted by an anonymous individual in New York, which put up disturbing pictures from the fighting that were not printed in US newspapers or shown on US television, but which were widely seen in the rest of the world. Ricks interviews experts who universally conclude that the blogger's presentation trumped that of the US military...
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