Trump tweets fake photo of a dog injured during Baghdadi attack


Washington: US President Donald Trump has tweeted a fake photo showing an army dog ​​injured during the attack on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northwest Syria. Baghdadi (48) was killed on Saturday after an army dog ​​chased the world's most wanted terrorist into a tunnel with US special forces. He had blown himself from the suicide belt during the attack.

Trump tweeted with a photo of the dog, "American hero." He said that the dog had chased Baghdadi into the Syrian tunnel before blowing himself up. According to the news in The New York Times, Daily Wire, a conservative website, has published this picture.
This picture is from 2017 when James McClaughn, a retired army doctor, was awarded the medal. This picture has been tampered with. McClaughn was honored for saving ten lives during the Vietnam War.

In the picture tweeted by the US President, the dog's head has been kept in the place of McClaughn's head. This dog of Belgian Malinois breed is being called "Konan" in the media. When a reporter for the Times showed McClaughn both photos, he laughed. "Army dogs are courageous," he said. The president's tweet became a topic of humor for some users, while some expressed displeasure over the decision to manipulate a photo of a war hero or the quality of photoshop.

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