What follows is a caption from the AFP, and below that, the picture that accompanies it:
" An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house [emphasis added] following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City."
The only way those bullets hit her house was if someone threw them at her house.
You see, they've never been fired. For those of you unfamiliar with firearms, only the little copper-looking tip is the actual bullet. The larger, cylindrical casing below it holds the primer and the gunpowder that propels the bullet out of the firearm.
Nice going, AFP! Proof again, that members of the MSM are often dupes for terrorist propagandists, and know very little about things military.
Look at it like this: That picture had to have passed through at least several news people, including AFP's editors, before it was posted. An AFP editor chose that picture as representative of the printed story. And none of the people in that chain knew anything about guns, or if any of them did, they got so excited about posting another picture in the antiwar, anti-US genre of photojournalism, -- pictures depicting these types of scenes: Crying mother holding a dead baby killed by Americans, old woman crying because of the Americans, old man carrying a dead baby, killed by Americans, American-injured child, American-bloodied child, etc. (and they post such pictures even when the story is about the "price of tomatoes" in Baghdad) -- that they "missed" an in-your-face obvious bit of propaganda, courtesy of the Mahdi Army.
Now, for all you latte-sippin', gun-fearing, military-hating, anti-US, lefty journalists, below are two pictures that will help you determine whether a bullet held up by a fellow propagandist has, or has not, been fired:
Bullets that have been fired and have hit something.
Bullets that have not been fired and have not hit anything unless they were thrown, not fired, at something.
Here's a link to a screen shot of the original story, since AFP will probably soon remove the picture of the Mahdi actress and her magic bullets.
Updates: An Instalaunch is now in effect on this post and The American Thinker is on it, too. Blackfive has opened up a can of its own brand of whup-ass on the AFP propagandist clowns. Check Blackfive's comments section for some laughs, and for info on the AFP photographer who took the picture of Magic Bullet Lady, Wissam al-Okaili. -- Lots and lots of pictures of injured babies, crying mothers, and a flattering portrait of Moqtada Al Sadr in his online portfolio. How did he get close enough to Al Sadr to get that portrait? Few people do.
Man, Magic Bullet Lady sure is ubiquitous. Here's another picture I found of this Mahdi actress in one of her various grief-stricken poses.
Magic Bullet Lady is in the same ranks as propagandists like Green Helmet Guy and Pieta Man, all terrorist sympathizers and terrorist abettors who are kept in business by anti-US "journalists" the world over.
Reader John F. sent me another link to the Magic Bullet Lady picture, still up at AFP. Above it is another propaganda photo by the same Mahdi Army sympathizer (employee?) ahem, I mean photojournalist.
This story has gone viral. A "thank you" to everyone who picked up on it.
Ace of Spades has some interesting thoughts on AFP's deceptive, ham-fisted attempt to massage the copy accompanying the picture, which it did shortly after the Magic Bullet Lady fraud had been exposed:
CORRECTS BULLETS TO UNSPENT
An elderly Iraqi woman holds up two unspent bullets at her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City, 14 August 2007.
Ace says:"Ummm... that's not all that was corrected, AFP. The old caption said those bullets hit her house.
Now that you acknowledge they were never fired, of course you admit they could not have hit their house. Funny how you just omitted that part without actually acknowledging your error there.
Why not just let that caption remain? The woman claimed these obviously-unfired cartridges hit her house. Why protect a liar from being exposed? Unless, of course, you have some interest in protecting a liar."
