The above picture was sent in to Time Magazine with this caption by photographer Bruno Stevens:
“Kfar Chima, near Beirut, July 17, 2006 An Israeli Air Force F16 has alledgedly been shot down while bombing a group of Hezbollah owned trucks, at least one of these trucks contained a medium range ground to ground missile launcher.”
Time took a similar photograph by Stevens and altered the caption to imply an Israeli plane was definitely shot down. The huge fire and large amount of smoke in the background is actually a Lebanonese Army truck with a large amount of munitions used by Hezbollah.
Both Time and U.S. World & News Report reported the story as if Hezbollah had shot the Israeli jet down. They attempted to skew the story to effect sympathy and false info concerning Hezbollah. In fact the stories would have been closer to the truth if they had reported the burning truck (not a jet) was an implication of Lebanonese Army collusion with Hezbollah.
Here is the caption re-written by Time:
“The wreckage of a downed Israeli jet that was targeting Hizballah trucks billows smoke behind a Hizballah gunman in Kfar Chima, near Beirut. Jet fuel set the surrounding area ablaze.”
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