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    BAGHDAD ON THE BOSPORUS
    By Dana Milbank

    The Washington Post
    Thursday, March 30, 2006; A21

    Howard Kaloogian, vying for the Republican nomination in the race
    to succeed felonious former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham
    (R-Calif.), just returned from a trip to Baghdad and posted on his
    Web site a photo showing a busy urban street scene, which he said
    proved that Baghdad is "much more calm and stable" than people think.

    But something didn't look right to readers of the liberal Web site
    Daily Kos, who noted that women in the photo were wearing Western
    clothing, a couple was holding hands, and signs are in the Roman
    alphabet.

    Soon after this discovery yesterday, the photo disappeared from
    the Kaloogian Web site and was replaced by a notice: "We originally
    posted a photograph not of Baghdad, Iraq but from Istanbul, Turkey,
    where our delegation traveled on the way home to the United States. We
    apologize for this mistake."

    The photo was replaced by a long-distance shot of a Baghdad street
    empty of pedestrians. Late yesterday the whole display disappeared.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn /content/article/2006/03/29/AR2006032902277.html?n av=rss_politics/fedpage
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