Covering the family of 16-year-old suicide bomber Samir Hammad (pictured), Times of London reporter Stephen Farrell makes an interesting observation:
Within hours of his death Hammad was a fully accessorised “martyr”, complete with farewell video, posters and heroic slogans. Sitting on the few cushions remaining in the small hilltop house his mother Samya, 42, complied with photographers who clamoured for her to pose with a poster, but the house was unadorned with militant propaganda.
What does that say about the photos such as this one by Reuters?
