Not fauxtography, but captious captions

This is an image published by Time with the following caption

The wreckage of a downed Israeli jet that was targeting Hizballah trucks billows smoke behind a Hizballah gunman in Kfar Chima, near Beirut. Jet fuel set the surrounding area ablaze.

The photographer, Bruno Stevens, had sent this

Kfar Chima, near Beirut, July 17, 2006 An Israeli Air Force F16 has alledgedly been shot down while bombing a group of Hezbollah owned trucks, at least one of these trucks contained a medium range ground to ground missile launcher.

You'll notice the shift from "alleged" to "downed Israeli jet" and that the reference to the missile launcher has disappeared in the published version. The Time caption just leaves it as "Hizballah trucks", which raises the question of how the Israelis would know that they were Hizballah, which in turn would lead you to wonder if they just targeted any trucks.

Bruno Stevens went back 3 more times and according to the evidence he gathered came to the following conclusion and so modified his original caption:

Kfar Chima, near Beirut, July 17, 2006 The Israeli Air Force bombed a group of Hezbollah chartered trucks parked on the back of large Lebanese Army barracks , at least one of these trucks contained a medium range ground to ground missile launcher, at least one missile was hit, misfiring high into the sky before falling down and starting a huge fire in the barracks’ parking lot.

Go here to Bruno Stevens' post about the matter and more photographs including ones of the barracks and of a truck with a missile launcher. A heated exchange follows in the comments.

(via Ninme and LGF)