Re: Re:Current Events

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From: "Bradley, Jason (US - Minneapolis)" <jabradley@deloitte.com>

> Actually, I am not sure when or where this picture
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2838.htm
> was taken, it looks like some time after the statue was taken down.  I
was
watching the video from
> MSNBC as the vehicle pulled up and about the 40 minutes or so as they
> prepared to pull it down, there was quite a crowd in the square, much
larger
> then this picture tells of.

Indeed, it was my first suspicion that the picture was taken later.

However, I loooked through what pictures I could find of the event, and
found no other that really shows the whole square.

For example the BBC photo series
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/pictures/galleries/newsid_2933000/2933
567.
stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/2933629.stm

These are the largest pictures of the crowd I could find on mainstream
media
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39074000/jpg/_39074493_crowd1.jpg
http://www.msnbc.com/local/wgal/a1570792.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39075000/jpg/_39075101_noose3_300.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/2933629.stm
The question is, how many people are outside those pictures ?
The street behind the statue is empty and the crowd seems to be thinning
in
the foreground.

MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/897774.asp speaks of "100 or so Iraqis".
The video on that page, again, shows only a section of the large square,
the
street behind the statue is empty and the few people walking around on
the
street don't seem especially interested.

Could somebody point me to a wide-angle picture or video of the square
while
the statue is being taken down ?

Greetings
Karl Heinz