Are these Syrian nuclear pictures faked? (Guardian)

[struggle4progress]

Ewen MacAskill
The Guardian,
Thursday May 1 2008

... Doubts about their authenticity have been raised by Professor William Beeman, head of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, who has had a long involvement with the Middle East.

He posted on a Los Angeles Times website a note received from a "colleague with US security clearance" pointing out "irregularities". The unnamed colleague said a picture taken before the bombing looked as if it had been digitally enhanced, noting that the lower part of the building, the annexe and the windows pointing south appeared much sharper than the rest.

He also questioned why the alleged reactor had no air defences, no military checkpoints and no powerlines. Turning to two shots of the bombed building, he noted that the first showed a rectangular building and the second a square one. Were they the same building? ...

"My friend who watches this material carefully in his capacity as an analyst said, 'This does not add up.'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/01/syria.nuclear

His note has produced lively and detailed exchanges, involving photo technicians, graphic artists and military analysts past and present, including a specialist in aerial reconnaissance. The basic divide is between those who think it is unpatriotic to question the Bush administration and those suspicious that it is a rerun of 2003, when the administration put out misleading intelligence before the Iraq invasion

[The Magistrate]

1. The Possibility, Sir, Certainly Cannot Be Ruled Out

We all know the administration is capable of it....

[PDJane]

2. I vote yes.

They actually came from the Israelis........

[shaayecanaan]

3. Ask me a riddle and I reply

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie

[struggle4progress]

4. Thanks for the link to Global Research's discussion

[DCKit]

5. Brought to U.S., no doubt, by the same bunch of amatuers who create the Bin Laden videos.

Between the spin and the outright lies of this maladministration, it's hard not to be criminally cynical. The last time anything truthful came out of the WH, Monica swallowed it.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I posted that last week. Some DUers turned the pictures around to align them, but I still thought

the building shape wasn't the same as the wreckage.

[struggle4progress]

8. Actually, one reason I posted this was: I'd seen all the objections raised here first

[yellowcanine]

7. The fact that the question is even being asked is indicative of the damage done by the Bush

administration. Can anyone even imagine asking that question of any prior administration. Think what would have happened if people had asked that question of the Kennedy administration during the Cuban Missile Crisis.