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By Brian C. Ledbetter · Monday, March 30. 2009 10:26
The Iraqi Army likes to point guns at women:

An Iraqi soldier patrols a street during a military operation in Baghdad's al-Fadhil district March 30, 2009. Iraqi security forces swept through an area of Baghdad on Sunday and detained several people after Sunni patrolmen angry at their leader's arrest clashed with police and troops in a battle that killed three people. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ CONFLICT IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE MILITARY)


Most of Mohammed's other shots are more pedestrian in nature, but it's always interesting to see photos like this hit the wire, considering how often similar photos are used to illustrate the "cruelty" of politically-unpopular armed forces around the world. Such as this and that.

In short, if you see photos like this in your local paper, stop and ask yourself—Are you reading news? Or are you really just looking at raw emotion, published with the intent of changing your opinions?

Because only one of the two purposes is a valid function of a news agency.
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captainfish on 2009-03-31 16:58 #1
*Yeah, i love it when they change the obvious gleeful context of the picture to one of being sinister.

The old woman is OBVIOUSLY doing the "I'm Not Worthy" salute to the soldiers walking by.

You think by now that the News Editors would be getting sick of nothing but "soldier-pointing-gun-at-non-soldier" pictures.
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