BRAD BLOG: All-Purpose Nuke Plant Photo SCRUBBED from Gov Run 'News' Site!

[BradBlog]

All-Purpose Nuke Plant Photos Scrubbed from Government Run 'News' Site!
Identical Photo Used in Stories on both Iran and N. Korea was also used with IRAQ Stories!
All have been 'disappeared' from U.S. Funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website!
Still no Explanation for CNN's Use of Same Iranian Facility on Their N. Korea Story!

After yesterday's exposé on the use of a satellite photo of a (presumably) Iranian nuclear facility which was misrepresented as a nuclear facility in North Korea by the U.S. Government funded "news" site Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in an April 2004 story, the site has now removed that photograph from the article without giving explanation on their webpage for the removal.

To make matters worse, we pointed out yesterday that the photo of the (follow closely now) supposed Iranian nuclear facility that was used with the article on North Korea was actually filenamed "Iraq-nuclear.jpg"!

It has now been discovered that the same photograph was indeed also used on RFE/RL stories about WMD's in Iraq!

Full story, screenshots, comment from RFE/RL and more on this developing mystery at:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001192.htm

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Brad Friedman
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[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. This is HUGE....i think it shows how we have/are being had...

im nominating this

[shraby]

2. This proves one thing to me...that they are

monitoring the blogs and du.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. And that to boot! n/t

[keithjx]

4. This is getting ridiculous.

I'm nominating it too. Hey, didn't we see that nuke site on our tour of syria too??? And there's a couple in China....

Effing mass media.
KJ

[natrat]

5. hmmm maybe these people really are that stupid

[Career Prole]

6. You should mention that while not surprising it is still unacceptable.

Surely not when Radio Free Europe's phony pictures were used to help convince the Coalition of the Bilked that they hadn't actually been bilked.
When they ran the picture with the nuke plant posing as an Iraqi plant it was two weeks after Donald Kay had quit and said we weren't going to find diddly-squat in Iraq, so many European countries were debating pulling the plug on their participation. The gall of these people! :grr:

RFE/RL is funded by the U.S. Government and its corporate board of directors is composed of the nine Presidential appointees. It broadcasts news from an American point of view across Europe. Therefore, the use of American propoganda is not wholly surprising for them.

[annabanana]

7. Picture was also in my local paper, as Korea.....Where IS it?

So where is it really? If it's not Korea I will yell at my local paper.

[hvn_nbr_2]

8. It's really Three Mile Island... he he

There weren't any good photo targets in Iran so they went to Pennsylvania.

[WLKjr]

9. Look Sheeple, your being HAD like none other (except like Gannon, lol)!

nominating. I recognized that photo right off the bat, this is BULLSHIT!

[greenmutha]

10. The Million Dollar Question:

Was this same photo used by Colin Powell when he went before Congress trying to get the approval to go to war with Iraq? :eyes:

[BradBlog]

11. The .02 answer...

...Not as far as I can tell greenmutha.

I tried to compare the photos I was able find from Powell's presentation to the ones from Iran (or N. Korea, or Iraq, or wherever they may *really* be from).

They didn't sync up. I welcome, however, the sleuths of DU to prove me wrong on that matter, however!

Brad
The BRAD BLOG
http://www.BradBlog.com

[Us vs Them]

12. Love it.

I hope those over at RFE are big fans. Keep reading BradBlog and DU, guys. You might learn something.

Keep in mind the prospect that we actually may have helped them does not worry me in the least. We have been, and will continue to be one step ahead.

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. Who among us knows where ANY of these photos were taken?

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I mean, it's not like WE have satellites we can access to "check 'em out" ?

Fur all we know, a whole MESS of such photos could just be models set up on a desk somewhere

Remember that movie where the 4 astronauts never REALLY went to the moon

and escaped from the photo-facility in the desert where they faked the landing,

then realized they couldn't be kept alive

and escaped to the desert

only to be hunted down one at a time?

Oh, - and regarding NASA's launch for that, the "real" one?

well, Hollywood orchestrated that even to the extent of moving the launch pad so the "view" would be more spectacular for the televised broadcast - to "sell" the space program to the taxpayers

"Space Program" really being the funding of the US's missile program, which the taxpayers would not have gone for,

but a "Space" program - well that was sorta "nice" - and caught the romantic, exploratory nature of the citizens - they had NO idea that it was really a weapons development program

Hollywood and the WH have had a "marriage" ever since -

The USA is now just one big dangerous "Reality" show

and the American public sit at home and watch the likes of "shock 'n awe" with glee.