The Disinformation Propaganda and The Reality

This photograph of the child was taken out of context and published on the covers and front pages of American national and local media, as if to say, "see how our soldier tenderly holds an Iraqi child in his arms". I wanted to know whether this American soldier had any children of their own, what he was feeling at the time, and so on. They weren’t interested in what had happened to the child in the picture, whose mother had been killed and whose father had been riddled with bullets by American soldiers.

The other photo captures starkly the horror and carnage of war. 9-year-old Ibtihal Jassem is rescued by her uncle Jaber Jouda, in Basra, Iraq, in this photo dated Saturday March 22, 2003, after the bombing of the Mshan neighbourhood by coalition warplanes. Born deaf and mute, Jassem not only lost her right leg in the U.S. bombing of Basra two days after the war in Iraq began, but also all seven members of her family…