Reply #20: Snipers shoot kids in incubators - wartime propaganda - PROVEN FAKE!

[Caustic Logic]

I don't know if anyone reads these older threads, but I'm making the rounds with some findings.

Sniping kids is an incendiary claim, not unlike the Iraq incubator babies story of 1991. Most people will believe this, as they did that, based on repetition and deeply ingrained prior bias. But I for one doubted the claim enough to look into it some.
1) There are some credible reports in recent days of children suffering apparent gun shots to the head.
2) It's impossible to say for certain who fired any particular bullet (loyalists? On orders? Provocateurs?)
3) At least some of the evidence cited to support the claims is FAKE.

Two young children, a girl evacuated to Turkey, and a boy still in Misrata aged about 4 and 5 years old, were claimed on April 9 and 10 to have been shot in the chest by snipers. Both had x-ray films to prove it. Both films are copies of the same exact image. And the image looks pretty fake (no broken ribs, bullet not deformed, strange angle of entry, etc.). I've explained this in an essay titled "the sniped tykes of Misrata?" It's not the only major deception I've uncovered, nor will it be the last.

In short, expect more of this kind of distortion, expect every sign of the rebels' barbaric fanaticism and ethnic cleansing of eastern Libya to be ignored, expect every breathless report of Gaddafi atrocities to be repeated a million times at the highest levels, and the debunks and retractions to be ignored. In the meantime, we'll cheer like drunken fools as our militaries topple a rare economic system that has maintained its independence, fulfilling a 40-year CIA-Wall Street goal. Further, there's evidence suggesting this whole spontaneous revolution we were forced to help was planned out in France between November and January. How long will be helping the new "rebel" government suppress the 2/3 of Libya's population that's unhappy with the change foisted on them?