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AEST US newspaper fires photographer over faked Iraq shot US newspaper The Los Angeles Times has fired a staff photographer for editing together two photos of a British soldier and a crowd of people outside the Iraqi city of Basra to make the scene more dramatic, the newspaper said. In a front-page editor's note, the paper said a photo that appeared on Monday's front page by photographer Brian Walski was actually a digital composition of two photos taken moments apart. The editor's note said Mr Walski, reached on Tuesday by phone in southern Iraq, acknowledged combining the shots. "Times policy forbids altering the content of news photographs," the editor's note said. "Because of the violation, Walski, a Times photographer since 1998, has been dismissed from the staff." The paper said that Mr Walski edited the two pictures together to "improve the composition". The pictures showed a British soldier pointing a rifle at an attentive crowd in Basra, including a man clutching a child. Mr Walski, a newspaper photographer since 1980, was previously a staff photographer at the Albuquerque Journal and The Boston Herald. While in Boston, he covered international stories including the Gulf War, the famine in Somalia, the funeral of Princess Diana and the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Indian state of Kashmir. � 2003 Australian Broadcasting Corporation Copyright information: http://abc.net.au/common/copyrigh.htm Privacy information: http://abc.net.au/privacy.htm <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://archive.jab.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
