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Image: A Wider Angle View Of The Fall Of Baghdad
Friday, 11 April 2003, 1:16 pm
Article: The Scoop Editor
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VersionThe above image is a wide angle shot
– source unknown – of the scene around the famous fall of
the bronze statue in Baghdad, a scene hailed by US Defence
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as the equivalent of the fall of
the Berlin Wall and purveyed on the front cover of 90% of
the world's newspapers today.
Several striking differences
to the fall of the Berlin Wall immediately come to mind from
the above image.
1. The people who pulled down the Berlin
Wall were not assisted by a US Army Bradley fighting
vehicle.
2. The people who pulled down the Berlin Wall
were not a small crowd being protected by three US Abrams
tanks.
3. The people who pulled down the Berlin Wall
outnumbered the journalists present at the event by the
thousands, not by around 30, with a couple of hundred more
watching tentatively from the edges of the square.
The
following annotated version of the photograph – from
Indymedia - makes the points above in a graphical
manner.

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