Incompetent bastards in the media

"Well, because Macs suck so hard, I can't post the pic. But Snapping Turtle found a picture from Agents France-Presse which shows a Pakistani tribesman standing in a ruined house, next to a piece of unexploded ordnance. The caption - which Snapping Turtle says is "on the front page of the Globe, and possibly elsewhere" says,

""A Pakistani tribesman stand by a unexploded ordinance (sic) at his house which was damaged in an alleged U.S. air strike in the Bajur tribal zone near the Afghan border Saturday."

But, as Snapping turtle points out, there are some problems with the picture, as described by the caption."
CounterColumn

"The "ordinance" in question is an unfuzed high-explosive artillery shell of indeterminate caliber, but definitely over 105mm, the Canadian standard light round. We know this because of the distinctive boat shape, the copper band around the bottom (known as the "driving band", which engages the rifling in the barrel of a howitzer, and the yellow stripe (international symbol for high-explosive). The round does not appear to have a fuze on the top, which generally comes to an aerodynamic point, but still has the ring bolt screwed in place of the fuze when rounds are in storage, and used to move the rounds around. So it's fair to say this round has not yet been fired out of any gun: in other words, it's not a dud. (It is possible, of course, that the round is inert, having either never been filled with explosive, or having had that explosive removed at some point previously.)"
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