...Pitty I didn't manage to spot it somehow yesterday; I surfed that site intensively.

Perhaps you should start a separate diary on this discovery; this one takes simply too long to load. You have my Recommendation.

Hope you didn't stay up all night to catch that.  :-)

If you have time, it would be good to follow up with:

The Busby campaign-- we know they're following this, and this link to their contact page has both a toll-free# and e-mail.

Drop a reply to one of AnthonyLA's comments above, so it shows up on his hotlist.

Wow. Just wow. Good work by you and Faruk!

-Jay-

So, what will be the implications? I hope this will get some coverage.

While I was looking for it in southeastern turkey, you slam dunked it near Istanbul. Great instincts. Great work!!!!

in the 4th picture of photographer Faruk here

The 5th picture seems to have been taken from the other side of the street; notice the McDonald's (so know we know where kaLOONYgan went, supposing of course he did take the pic himself :-) )

Thanks much for your effort.  

I said yesterday thta this deserves a blog swarm. I want to see Jane at FDL write Howie a nice letter.. I want it all.

This is so good for the Dems, it must be taken.

Way to fucking go, jem6x. Way to fucking go.

I gave you the one recommend I could!  Great detective work!

Well done!
Bravo!
My best regards!

Nice catch. I went and compared it to the picture myself. Yuppers. The "key" point isn't the smaller billboard, which could be in the Kurdick region of Iraq, I guess. But the larger one. The guy who wants to be "The Fly". You can clearly make it out in the other picture.

You got it.

Yes make a diary and we will recommend (if you haven't already)

And thanks to everyone for their work on this.  I am also glad we have the skeptics too because they kept the whole process honest.

And you know, this was fun.  

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/...

Great work. I have been googling images from istanbul ever since this broke and couldn't find it. There is no question that this is the place and from the sourcing that you have added should be easily verified.

Have you emailed the Busby group about this information yet? This will be great ammunition and couldn't have come at a better time.

Someone emails Olberman.

when i saw that photo, i said to myself "the language is turkish" (can't speak it, but it's a very unique looking language), and "the city is istanbul" (never been there, but i've seen multiple viewings of Topkapi, Five Fingers, From Russia With Love, as well as countless travelogues, all while staying at a holiday inn, of course :-)).

from his name, i'm guessing Kaloogian is of armenian descent.  kind of a nice irony that he get's kneecapped for trying to pass off a turkish street scene as a typical day in peaceful, pacified, Baghdad.

That makes me want to cry with pride and rage at the same time. Superlative, breathtaking find. You so totally rule.

How did you ever manage to find it??!!!? I'm incredibly impressed!

Great work.

I knew a Kossack somewhere had a photo!  Well done!

Wait... wait... See that dude with the dark blue shirt, standing next to that white minivan?  Good heavens, that's him, there he is, it's Zarqawi!

Press hasn't reported on that either :-)