Got up this morning and heard that an US trooper was being held hostage by the insurgency in Iraq and when I looked at the grainy pick I was like...that just looks fake.
Well....turns out it probably is a fake and that the "hostage" is a 12" action figure. And when you zoom in on the picture sure enough...there is a fake toy M-16 pointed at the hostages' head. I've seen just about everything now. And just to think this was reported all over the place today.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../ny11802012115
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This combination shows an image, left, posted on an Iraqi militant Web site on Tuesday Feb. 1, 2005 and an image provided by toy manufacturer Dragon Models USA of an action figure named ' Cody' in a box. The Web site posted the photograph of what it claimed was a kidnapped U.S. soldier, but doubts were quickly raised about its authenticity and the U.S. military said no soldiers were missing. Dragon Models USA, said the figure in the photo resembled one of its military action figures originally produced for sale at U.S. bases in Kuwait. (AP Photo/Dragon Models USA, HO)
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I think I'm going to go buy one of those dolls now because of this.