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Rocco DiPippo at The Autonomist found this AFP news photo of a woman who claims to be holding bullets that hit her house after US-led coalition raids.

Can you see the problem? What might be wrong?

Her two bullets have not been fired. Only the top little tip of the round is the actual bullet. The rest of it is the brass casing which holds the powder that, when fired, propels the bullet.

Here’s the full caption:

An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people from an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq, officials said.(AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)

The image Wissam is trying to present is one of a poor, helpless elderly Shia woman who’s home was targeted by US-led forces. Sounds like what Obama was trying to sell the other day when he said:

…so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.