What is sad about the chain email that distributes these pictures (and there are various versions), is not that the story is fantasy, but that it demeans the memory of the photographers who took these pictures whilst under attack and most of whom are probably no longer alive to defend their reputation, or indeed copyright.
This chain mail like others of its ilk (Shuttle Disaster springs to mind) have a life of their own. From hazy memory I first received this one about 3 years ago and I have received several more copies since. I expect I will receive another before Christmas.
As Terry Pratchett has written:
'A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on ..'
But once the lie is out there, the truth can never eradicate it.
Example: the Holocaust denial!