The Rachel Corrie incident:
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2010/03/truth-about-rachel-corrie.html
from the blog:
Shaik and Clausen then sent our agency to speak with Corrie’s friends who were
with her at the time she was crushed.
Corrie’s friend Joe Smith described
how Corrie sat on a mound of dirt facing the IDF bulldozer making its way to the
house it was about to demolish. “Rachel had two options”, Smith said. “When the
bulldozer started to dig in the dirt pile, the pile started to move, and she
could have rolled sideways quickly or fallen backwards to avoid being hit. But
Rachel leaned forward to climb to the top of the dirt pile. The bulldozer’s
digging drew her downward, and its driver could not see her anymore. So without
lifting the scoop, he turned backward and she was already underneath the
blade”
Smith’s description is very important, since the picture published
by Reuters shows Corrie standing to the left of the bulldozer, in a location
where the driver can see her very clearly, as she holds a megaphone in her hand.
Beneath the picture’s caption was written: “Photographed before Rachel Corrie
was run over by an IDF bulldozer.”
Everyone who looked at the picture and
the text understood that the driver, who saw the American civilian standing in
front of him, just continued crushing Corrie to death. But Joe Smith said that
the picture was taken hours before she was run over, which happened at 5:00
p.m., and not a few minutes beforehand. Smith emphasized that at the time of the
incident and during it, there were no photographers in the area.
ALSO A VIDEO DISCUSSION OF THE EVENT WITH IDF FOOTAGE OF THE EVENT:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=052_1269301864
A review of the event from free republic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466903/posts