Friday, February 04, 2005
10:38 PM

AP: G.I. Joe Captured in Iraq!: "A little after noon on February 1, the Associated Press released a news alert saying they'd found a photo on a message board (ansarnet.ws, according to this AP article) along with a message that foreigners had captured many American soldiers. Copies of the original versions of the article are still floating around the 'net. A couple of hours after releasing it, an advisory moved across the wire, asking editors not to run AP Photo LON128, because of 'questions being raised about the image.' As of the last version of the story I've found (from around 4 p.m. EST), the AP is trying to not make a big deal out of the fact they goofed ... big time. And yet the photo is so G.I. Joe when you look at it the first time."

(Via Kuro5hin.org.)