Clay Waters, the director of Times Watch, asks, "Will the Times check the validity of previous work by Hajj that has appeared within its pages?"
In the interest of clarity and fairness, the two Hajj images above are not, to my knowledge, suspect.
Update at 1:10 EDT: Welcome TimesWatch.org readers. Two days after Reuters issued the first of its two Hajj photo-kills, the Times has neither reported on Hajj's photo fraud nor issued a statement regarding the authenticity of any of the Hajj photos it published, whether within or on the front of its pages.
Update at 5:12 pm EDT: Better view of July 14 Hajj image is here.
Update at 7:40 pm EDT: NYT staging photgraphs in Lebanon? Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit thinks so. Inconclusive for me.
The photographer is not an Arab or Muslim stringer who has an axe to grind with "Crusaders" and "Zionists". Hicks is an award winning, veteran Times staff-photographer Tyler Hicks.
Update at 11:23 pm EDT: Hicks is of the hook. Looks like a case of caption switching by an editor. Go read Malkin for the lowdown.
