Days Later: US Newspapers Run Graphic Photos Of Libya Ambassador

Posted by??- September 13, 2012 at 9:59 am -?Permalink?-?Source?via?Alexander Higgins Blog

NY Daily News Front Page - Sept 13 2012

Newspapers across the U.S. run graphic photos of the murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was reportedly raped and lynched by Islamic extremists.

As the violence continues to flare in the Middle East news outlets that originally paid little attention to the murder of U.S. Ambassador Stephens is now the top headline nationwide.
The unfolding story that was?originally reported as a spontaneous rocket-propelled-grenade?being fired at a protest following the setting of the Benghazi consulate on fire has morphed into several new dimensions.
First came revelations from US intelligence officials stating they had knowledge?the attack was planned in advanced.
Then came revelations of evidence the ambassador was actually captured by the same terrorists he helped put into power who?tortured and lynched him and 3 other Americans?as Libya security forces stood by and watched.
Just last night reports out of the Middle East surfaced claiming the Ambassador was?sexually raped and sodomized before he was murdered.
As the story continued to unfold it has become the central focus of news outlets across America as President Obama has announced the deployment of warships and elite marines vowing justice for the attacks.
Meanwhile the?US embassies in Yemen and Egypt were attacked over night?following yesterday?s protests in Cairo where Muslim Brotherhood members and Islamic Jihadist leaders call for a million man march in Egypt against the US.
As the tensions flare up newspapers are going back on their?original statements?that they would not run graphic photos.
Here?s what people across the U.S. and in some international locations woke up to on the front page of? morning papers? days after the original attack.

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Some international papers used ambassador image

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Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.
Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.

More commonly used images from Libya

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Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.
Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.
Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.
Front page appears courtesy of the Newseum.

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Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world. Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography. Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society. John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”

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