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Friday, November 16, 2001

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Well last night turned out for the better - went out to play pool till late, grabbed a bite to eat at the local diner... and hung out with some pretty cool people, some which I just met, and I'm glad I did.

I was watching CNN today, there was a press conference regarding Afghan matters, and pictures of special ops in Afghanistan. I was somewhat angry because the so-called pictures of special ops were fake. There are about 6 of them, some are quite small and scattered about the CNN site in reference to the war, etc. I have seen doctored images before, hell -- I've even made them. The images look as though they had a model serviceman all costumed up and photographed (at a much higher resolution), green screened (or via simple color isolation and deletion with lets say... Photoshop), and put over the Afghan location/people pictures. The images behind the soliders are grainy, but the soldier is clear as day, the outline(s) of the solider are also somewhat off (like you see with the older greenscreen technology). It's ridculous -- they wouldn't show the actual SpecialOps soldiers, unless the government is foolish enough to give any kind of advantage to anyone who might be watching our news broadcast(s). The only pictures I've been able to find are small... but I'm going to keep looking... Anyone who knows anything about images/photography can easily see the images are manipulated. [discuss]
[the "Lawrence of Arabia" picture]

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