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Old 13th Sep 2013, 12:10
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TEEEJ
 
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In reference to the Iraq image it was simply an error originally posted by the BBC. Since then it has spun by conspiracy types and claimed to have been used by Kerry during his briefings. Stuffy posted a link for the conspiracy nut website article with the title.

'Bombshell: Kerry Caught Using Fake Photos to Fuel Syrian War'

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ml#post8022756

There isn't a shred of evidence that Kerry used or referred to that Iraqi image. There are several images taken in the aftermath of the chemical attack that fit what Kerry described.

We saw rows of dead lined up in burial shrouds, the white linen unstained by a single drop of blood. Instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home, we saw rows of children lying side by side sprawled on a hospital floor, all of them dead from Assad’s gas and surrounded by parents and grandparents who had suffered the same fate.
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