Saturday, February 04, 2012  AFP defends photo of Arab allegedly
run over (updated)  I reported last week about a series of
photos, one of which was published by AFP, supposedly showing an
Arab man - Mohammed Abu Qbeita - in agony after one of his legs
was tun over by a truck.  Here is the AFP photo:  CAMERA did an
investigation and found that there were many holes in the story:
AFP is denying any impropriety on the part of their
photographer, and say the story is true: These claims are false.
AFP’s Jerusalem bureau and photo editor interviewed other media
representatives present at the scene and watched video footage
filmed by other colleagues showing the construction worker being
carried away on a stretcher. Their trust in the events described
by Hazem Bader is unequivocal.  Reporters from AFP Jerusalem
bureau also interviewed the injured construction worker, Mahmud
Abu Qbeita, on February 1 as well as the doctors that treated
him at Yatta hospital. The following is a translation from
Arabic of the medic