The writing on white tee-shirt

Frankly I prefer to think that Mr. North is an innocent jerk trying to get his "five minutes of fame". Even if I know that he works in a serious "think tank". However, either he is quite a jerk (I may accept this as think tanks and institutes are not a vaccine to personal stupidity) or he does play the real dirty role of his own screenplay.

"Writing on white tee-shirt". We can see this "fact" on "Director's cut" and "Alright, explain this one!":

And it is in this frame that we see the teeshirt (inset) which seems to have writing on the chest. An expert has contacted us and agrees, telling us that it seems to have been electronically blurred to obscure the message it conveys.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/qana-directors-cut.html

Look at it closely, with an inset as large as I could make it without losing definition (also, slightly larger above). The garment appears to have writing across the chest.
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Again, look at the tee-shirt. Once again it looks like there is writing across the front.

The marking is not distinct, but it is there is two separate photographs, each showing the torso at a different angle. Can it be shadow of folds in the shirt?
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/alright-explain-this-one.html


First, Agencies publish photos with resolutions two or more times better than those seen on EU referendum. I wonder if Mr. North believes only on low-res captions. A bigger photo would avoid 90% of the doubt Mr. North puts on his blog.

But that's half the road. Well I took Mr. North's photos and analysed them. Yes, there is a strange blurring. On the right side of the shirt. All other "marking" is just shadows, nothing else. What makes it three times funny. First because we have a shot near the site made when this guy was showing his right side to the camera. Nothing there. Second because this guy is a supposed Hezbollite, and Mr. North leaves us an utter feeling that something bad for publicity could be there. Ooops, semites write right to left, Mr. North, so to read the whole stuff this guy has to rise his hand to the camera. Third, we have on thing Mr. North forgets, even if he has an "expert" to contact with. JPEG leave artifacts on the photos. And Reuters, AP and AFP are no good on JPEG quality. So following the artifact marks one may try an analysis of the "truthfulness" of the photo. At least there is nothing showing deliberate "retouchings" on the photos. Either the "retoucher" is top professional or Mr. North is wishing for too much from his "expert".

Besides, one thing shall be noted. JPEG's artifacts create some "order" that people frequently messes with things. Many people hunt for "roads" on Mars that are just the product of JPEG tricks. In the same way, artifacts could create a "sense" of writing on the shirt. However I could not see that JPEG could have played such trick here. Either Mr. North was seeing other photos or he sees to much. The darkenings on the shirt are nothing more than the shadow of the folders. So, a point for you Mr. North, you are seeing Martians even where I can't have a hint of them.

Frankly, there's blurring, as I said on the right side of the shirt. This side besides is yellowish, which contrasts a bit with the rest of the shirt. Maybe stain that was cleaned for the media show?

On the meantime there is something that Mr. North forgot to mention. On this photo it seems that the right hand of this guy is real dirty. Coloration correspond mostly to the one we see over the corpses. Now if we see the classical "screaming photos" this guy has this hand relatively clean.

So Mr. North, you see almost clearly writings but can't glance the dirt?

To end this story, I recomend to see the more carefully this photo and the one with the "poor man in black struggling" with two corpses. There is a suggestion of a stain on the lower part of the shirt of our so called "main actor". One cannot be absolutely sure of it but it seems that we are seeing one and the same shirt.