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BBC Mistakenly Runs 2003 Iraq War Photo with Houla Story

HeadlineJun 04, 2012

In other Syria news, the BBC has apologized after mistakenly running a nine-year-old photograph of body bags in Iraq next to a story on the recent massacre of more than 100 people in the Syrian village of Houla. The photographer of the original picture criticized the BBC for publishing the photograph without properly checking its veracity.

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