'Green Helmet' is a civil defence worker

It may not halt the conspiracy theories, but an Associated Press reporter has tracked down and interviewed a Lebanese man who has been at the centre of the controversy over allegedly stunted news pictures. Salam Daher, known to sceptical US critics as "Green Helmet" (because he wears one), has twice been photographed with the bodies of dead children in his arms in Qana, once in 1996 and, most recently, on July 30. That has convinced some people that he must be a member of Hezbollah and that the coincidental pictures of him are posed for propaganda reasons. In fact, says Daher, he is a civil defence worker, as he has been for 20 years, and part of his job is digging bodies out of bombed buildings. That should silence the conspiracists, shouldn't it? (Via Editor and Publisher: Today's Most Viewed Articles)