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Forensic Analysis Reveals Al-Qaeda's Image Doctoring
WerewolfOfVulcan writes "Wired reports that researcher Neal Krawetz revealed some very interesting things about the Al-Qaeda images broadcast in the mass media. Analysis shows that they're heavily manipulated, a discussion meant to illustrate a new technique that can spot forgery in digital media. 'Krawetz was ... able to determine that the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiri's head was added to the image afterward. In the second picture above showing the results of the error level analysis, the light clusters on the image indicate areas of the image that were added or changed. The subtitles and logos in the upper right and lower left corners ... were all added at the same time, while the banner writing was added at a different time, likely around the same time that al-Zawahiri was added, Krawetz says.'"
America is held to standards? Only guys to ever use Nuclear bombs on cities can't exactly act like saints after it you know.
And America has killed more civilians in Iraq and Afganistan than died in 9/11. Sorry to break it to you but it's true, you guys killed a lot of people and don't get villianised for it.
And some would argue on your standards again. I fail to see how "lets invade another country based on lies" is having higher standards, if anything I would say lower standards because at least these guys believe they are doing the right thing, not doing illegal stuff and then trying to cover their tracks.
If you were in the military then you also know some psychos were fighting with you too, people who went there just to kill people. We all know they are out there and can get in the military. So both sides have villians.
And I don't agree with no right or wrong in war. Raping and looting even in war is wrong, you can take the morale high ground and come out alive, but you can also come out dead from it. It's a balance of the two that makes the difference and even the noblest person can be a villian if he's manipulated right or vice versa. Living doesn't make you right, it just means you get to take another stab at the morale compass.
I like muppets.
yep the cia, nsa, ect were never good at manipulating photo's were they!
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like this famous one of Lee Harvey Oswald holding his weapon of choice to assassinate JFK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald#Ba
watch this great 9/11 documentry showing captured images and information not released to the public, i never understood how a passport could survive the crash in prestine condition but all 4 black boxes were completely destroyed, amazing!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=786692944
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