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packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:

>An anti-Mafia official in Palermo was said to have been killed
>by a "remote-controlled car bomb." The photo of the aftermath
>published in the NY TImes on Monday shows three cars clustered
>together and cordoned off from a crowd of viewers. The caption
>says, in part, "The powerful explosion also smashed these
>nearby cars."

>In the foreground are two sedans that suffered damage that
>is highly implausible, in the context. Both have had their
>roofs dented in a manner that could only have happened as a
>result of heavy objects falling on them, squarely in their centers.
>Anyone want to make up a story to explain it?

Not at all...how about looking at the whole picture, as broadcast on CNN.
I saw a car completely destroyed, still burning.  Numerous other cars
showed damage.  It is impossible to say from a newspaper picture the type 
or extent of damage suffered by a car.  First, they only show a portion of
the car, and then, damage can be masked because of the reproduction quality
of the typical newspaper photo...

Make a side trip when you go to Sarajevo and look at the color photos that
the investigators took....

 -Steve
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