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To: Sully- who wrote (7190)	2/1/2005 11:54:03 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

A Fake but Accurate Kidnapping Best of the Web Today - February 1, 2005 By JAMES TARANTO "A group calling itself the Al Mujahedin Brigade claimed Tuesday it captured a U.S. soldier in Iraq and threatened to behead him unless prisoners are released," CNN reports from Baghdad. But some have raised doubts about the authenticity of a photo posted on an Islamist Web site: In the photograph, the assault rifle--either an M-16 or an M-4--is pointed at the man's head, said CNN military analyst James Marks. Marks, a retired Army general, said he has several questions about the photograph's authenticity. A flak jacket the man is wearing in the picture has an unfamiliar kind of piping or trim along its edges, Marks said. The man's open-legged pants, as opposed to gathered hems, seem odd, he said. Marks also questioned what appeared to be camouflage paint on the man's face. "We have not used camo paint with conventional forces serving in Iraq," Marks said. Based on the photos the Drudge Report has uncovered, we'd say this looks like the work of the archterrorist Muhammad al-Sluggo.

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