[PEN-L:6051] NATO photos of of Kosovo mass graves are fake lampidis.1@osu.edu

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

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*****  NATO photos of of Kosovo mass graves are fake: report

THE HAGUE, April 24 (AFP) - Several photos distributed by NATO
and said to show possible mass graves in Kosovo could be fake, the
Dutch daily Algemen Dagblad said Saturday.

The paper based its claims on analyses carried out by a map
expert specialising in the study of satellite photos, who examined
four pictures taken over the Kosovo villages of Pusto Selo and
Izbica.

NATO showed two photos of each village. In each case, one of the
photos shows the area before the alleged graves were dug and the
second, taken several days later, appears to show a number of
freshly dug graves.

According to the expert, identified only as E. Burie, the most
recent photos displayed worrying inconsistencies.

He said that in the second picture of the Pusto Selo village,
there is a house which does not feature in the image taken a few
days before.

He said: "Either the Kosovars had time between the massacres to
build a house in a few nights, or the photo has been manipulated."

He said the photo of Izbica showing rows of graves had "touch-up
work which could only be the result of two different pictures being
superimposed."

Burie, who runs a studio in the central Dutch town of Almere
specialising in work for the country's top publishers and for
military maps, could not be reached for comment.

Italian General Giuseppe Marani, a NATO spokesman, said on April
18 that the alliance had photos of 43 sites in Kosovo which featured
"very clear rows of individual tombs facing southeast, that is,
towards Mecca."  *****