Knock it off with the fauxtography already, Reuters

This is just lame, from Reuters, of course:

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A Lebanese man inspects a former Israeli post after Israeli forces withdrew from the Marwahine village in south Lebanon October 1, 2006. (Ali Hashisho/Reuters)

According to the story: “They had the Israeli flag on my roof. When I arrived, I put up the Lebanese flag,” Saleh Mohammad, 50, told Reuters in Marwaheen, which had been occupied by Israeli soldiers. So Mr. Mohammad took the flag from his roof, put in on the ground, and carefully spread it out, then coincidentally a photographer chanced upon a wide-angle photoshoot perfectly capturing the concept of “Israeli-devastation-of-South-Lebanon-but-ultimate-defeat”, is that what we’re supposed to believe? Please cut it out with the doctored and staged photos already!

UPDATE

More on Ali Hashisho and his fine fauxtography.

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