More Smoke From Hajj

Now, it’s obvious that those smoke plumes were photoshopped, and clear that the photographer should have been fired. However, the blog sources you link to are rabid right-wing blogs, the kind who think that the entire staff of the New York Times should be strung up for treason, and you’ve wound up uncritically repeating some of their conjecture calculated to weaken trust in (relatively) objective news media.