SimonP also also opined that it wasn't necessarily a retouched photo.
I downloaded it and blew it up in Photoshop and didn't see any evident
artifacts of retouching.  So there may or may not be.

But either way, the subject is obviously not even in the same light as
the background.  So if it's a result of telephoto and zoom, it's
potentially just as misleading as if it were a retouched photo.

One wonders whether the person who took the picture did that
deliberately, or (as suggested on the forum Mr. Squirrel cites) was
simply trying to keep his a** safe.

B&S
'87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
SoCal

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>Karl Ploessl typed:
>> same picture is on the NYTimes frontpage:
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/world/middleeast/15mideast.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
>>
>>
>> Karl.
>>
>> On 5/15/07, joel walker <jwalker17@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> > We are all connected in some very subtle ways, and pics like these
>>> > make me
>>> > look at my own bus differently.
>>> >
>>> http://bp2.blogger.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/Rkmu7lxNNmI/AAAAAAAAEI8/PYZS9GPZCh8/s1600-h/fatah.jpg
>>>
>>> > http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/photo/2007/05/15/2005068706
>>>
>>> anybody else notice anything peculiar in that taipei times picture?
>>> the one with the burning bus??  sure seems to me that the person is
>>> NOT part of the original picture of the burning bus ... way too sharp
>>> and in focus and the light isn't right somehow. imho. :)
>>>
>>> not that ANY news/media company would EVER stoop to manufacturing a
>>> photo. ;)
>>>
>>> joel
>>>
>>
>>
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>> Karl
>> '81 Westy "Jenny"
>> Wilmington, DE
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