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CJR:

Bob Owen, chief photographer of the San Antonio Express-News, notified the AP that the photos of two deceased soldiers, who died in Iraq on Sept. 14, were nearly identical. Upon examining the photos, Owens noticed that everything except for the soldier’s face, name, and rank was the same. The most glaring similarity, Owen told CJR, was that the camouflage patterns of the two uniforms were “perfectly identical.”

AP-retracted DoD photo of deceased soldier

(McGinley, “Army Alters Photographs, Issues Them to AP,” CJR, 19 Sep ’08)

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