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...either cloud of smoke rising from a bomb blast in my own city, I wouldn't be worried much about where it fell on the Pantone color wheel. (More-elaborate comparisons of the two altered photos, which led Reuters to pull over 900 pictures by photographer Adnan Hajj, have been springing up on YouTube; best to search on "Reuters," perhaps because the video makers have had a hard time spelling "Adnan Hajj...
...argue till we pass out over Adnan Hajj's motives - politics? drama? careerism? - and those of the bloggers who pounced on the photos. In the end, they don't matter. What does matter is that every time something like this happens, the winners are the people of every political stripe who believe it's their calling to, to paraphrase another war, destroy the truth in order to save...
...cratered and still dangerous roads. Cars, minibuses, even tractors towing trailers crammed with people waving white sheets surged along the border roads, taking advantage of the brief respite in the bombing and fighting. "This is our one opportunity. They gave us 24 hours and we are taking it," says Adnan Shabi from the small village of Teir Harfa. He says that his family were trapped in their home for 20 days while Israeli jets bombed and strafed the area around the village. "We were cut off from the world," he says...
...Qaeda in Iraq will not gain so much notoriety. Al-Zarqawi met no interference from Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Iraq, and afterward he had support from antidemocratic forces. His reputation as a hard-line Jordanian jihadist worked in his favor. There will never be another al-Zarqawi. Adnan al-Jamie Baghdad...
...Maliki plans to offer an amnesty to insurgents, including those who have killed Americans - only those who have spilled any Iraqi blood would be excluded. But on Friday, the Maliki aide who had leaked that information was asked by the Prime Minister to resign. Still, the Washington Post reported, Adnan Ali al-Kadhimi stood by his account of amnesty considerations. "The prime minister himself has said that he is ready to give amnesty to the so-called resistance, provided they have not been involved in killing Iraqis," Kadhimi told the Post. And other government sources the paper spoke...