Despite extensive coverage in the blogosphere, one key fact has been missing: the identity of the person prominently posing many of the corpses for the international press. Against the powerful images of dead children, facts and reason don't stand a chance. Later in the AP report we learn about the circumstances by which (Abu Shadi Jradi) Jradi said he was summoned to the scene. "Jradi said he got the call to rush to Qana from Tyre. But he couldn't go immediately, with Israeli warplanes still overhead. 'It was too dangerous,' he said." Abu Shadi, it turns out, has a very distinctive form of transportation.
Okay so we got a name for Mr. Green Helmet. But Mr. GH has another occupation besides chief photography subject and civil defense rescue...
Mark MacKinnon of The Globe and Mail reported from nearby Tyre, Lebanon on July 26, describing the many difficulties caused by the rising death toll in that city. "Abu Shadi, the mortician at the government hospital in the city, agrees. He's processed 100 bodies -- many of them grotesquely mangled and burned -- and on his pickup runs has been forced to leave behind many more that he can't recover from cars and destroyed buildings.
"It's much more [than the official count]," he says. "There are many trapped under the rubble. The death toll will reach 1,000."
"Mr. Shadi was standing in front of a refrigeration truck that was packed with 20 bodies, days after he helped bury 74 bodies in a mass grave. When he opened the door to show the black body bags haphazardly piled on top of each other, a staggering stench came out, despite the refrigeration. Next to the truck stood 40 empty wooden caskets, waiting for new arrivals."
Could Mr. Green Helmet be the Mobile Morgue Driver? Israel Insider seems to think so. You can read the whole story here.
Now for my Chickenhawk Express TinFoil Hat moment...
I was looking at the pictures from the Qana tragedy and came across this picture...
CAUTION - GRAPHIC IMAGE ALERT...
Look at the hand in the bottom right corner. He has something on his hand and it's not a glove. I cropped the pic and resized it to see if I could figure out what the object was. Here is the result...
It's some clear plastic material... Okay here's the big tinfoil moment...
The bodies from Tyre (just like the bodies in Qana) were wrapped in clear plastic before being placed in the black body bags. Now we know that this baby was not wrapped up at this point because of the numerous pictures of Mr. Green Helmet holding up the baby. So why the clear plastic here? HHHMMMM...
I certainly don't know what exactly happened that day. I am no expert. Just a blogger... I have nothing but my gut instinct - which after 25 years of nursing is usually right on the money. Something about this whole incident doesn't sit right with me. The staged photos, the coincidental 2nd Qana incident and other things - PLUS knowing how the media jerks their knees at any story that looks bad on America or her allies. Unfortunately we'll probably never know the whole story. No amount of exposure of staged photos will bring the children back to life but their deaths should propel us to find out the truth.
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