******UPDATE - After the initial post, I discovered The Passion 3, be sure to read everything******

(Brief background, before I get to the odd coincidence I think I found)

If you haven't already seen Slublog's "The Passion of the Toys", go check it out now. The Passion is a compilation of images of remarkably clean childrens' toys posing for MSM cameras in the piles of rubble all over Lebanon.

Earlier this afternoon Allah tipped us off to what some consider a sequel, The Passion II at Free Republic.

Be sure that you check out all of those photos before reading further. Done? K.

Earlier today I saw that Michelle Malkin had posted two Reuters photos with "corrected" captions that I actually found a couple nights ago, but didn't post because without the original captions I felt like I might be stretching. Instead I hesitated and got scooped by Malkin. I guess if I'm going to be scooped, it couldn't have been by anyone better. Anyway, take a look at one of the two images (both are very similar):

CAPTION CORRECTION - CORRECTING REASON OF HOSPITALISATION Aya, an 18-month-old girl displaced from Tyre, cries after a routine operation at a hospital in Beirut July 24, 2006. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (LEBANON)

Again, we don't know what the original caption said, so I don't want to dwell on that aspect too much, but I think you can probably use your imagination on what it probably said. But look at the little blonde doll being held by the woman. Ignoring how odd the American style blonde doll is in Lebanon, does that doll look familiar? It does to me. Remember these two images from The Passion II?

For all I know it's just a coincidence. Perhaps it's a popular doll that a lot of little girls have, and perhaps there's nothing odd about this at all... But with these toys and stuffed animals popping up all over the place, I thought it was worth mention that it appears that the same doll we saw the man "dig" out showed up in front of a girl who was having routine surgery at a hospital, who had previously been identified in a way that we can only guess.

Again, there could be an innocent explanation for this, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the Hezbollywood directors are carrying these toys and dolls around for photo ops. I just seems odd that we keep seeing the same people and items and building pop up in photos week after week. Many obviously with lying captions that place virtually identical pictures weeks apart, etc. Can you blame me for being a bit suspicious about the travels of this little blonde haired doll, after all that we've seen?

I'm won't go out on the limb some of the Free Republic folks did and say that the man with the suitcase is unpacking it to display the toys, we simply can't be sure. I will however note the cleanliness of toys and stuffed animals, supposedly being pulled out of rubble that supposedly used to be these peoples' homes.

Another quesiton I have about these stuffed animals. Why all the American/Western Mickey Mouse and Teletubbies stuff? Again, I don't know about the suit case, but it's pretty clear that the stuffed animals are being used for propaganda, and it seems a likely scenario that the Hezbollywood directors got toys familiar to us so that they can tug on more hearstrings. Can't you see a mother seeing these photos and saying "my daughter has that same toy!". Maybe Mickey is popular there, but I doubt it. Even if he is, that still doesn't explain why all of these toys look like they are fresh out of the box.

With these obviously brand new toys, do you think that the children have such sentimental ties to them that their parents go back to their bombed out homes to dig for these toys, while leaving anything of real importance behind? Here's something really strange though. The two images above (of the man with the toys) are dated July 27. But the Minnie Mouse under on top of the rubble in this July 28 photo (on the right) seems to be the same one, that the man was holding. Hmmm...

*****UPDATE*****

I did a little digging for more toy photos, and think I hit the jackpot. I found 3 images, obviously taken within minutes (if not seconds) of each other that have inconsistent time stamps, and a pink toy box that is UNBELIEVABLY clean, being pulled out of rubble. Here we go...

The first two images are AP photos time/date stamped: Sat Aug 5, 8:59 AM ET, followed by an AFP photo with the time/date stamp: Sat Aug 5, 10:01 PM ET. Now, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt on the time/date stamp... maybe it's when the images were submitted or uploaded or whatever. But pay special attention to the pink box in the images:

A Lebanese man tries to salvage some toys from under the rubble of a destroyed building, still burning, in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, after Israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed the area overnight. Loud explosions resounded in Beirut as Israeli warplanes renewed their strikes in the city's southern suburbs. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said four people were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/Marwan Tahtah)

A Lebanese man tries to salvage toys from the rubble of a destroyed building in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, after Israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed the area overnight. Loud explosions resounded in Beirut as Israeli warplanes renewed their strikes in the city's southern suburbs. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said four people were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/Marwan Tahtah)

A Lebanese man recovers toys of children amid the rubble of destroyed buildings attacked by Israeli air strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut. France and the United States agreed on a draft UN Security Council resolution on a ceasefire in Lebanon as Israel hammered the country with what police described as the heaviest bombardment of the 25-day-old conflict.(AFP/Wael Ladki)

Each of these photos is still online, and each is linked here to their location on the web. In the unlikely even that they're taken down, I have the screen shots.

Now look at that toy box/case in the second AP photo. Tell me that thing isn't brand new? The stuffed animals appear brand new as well.

If I were to guess about the order these three photos were taken in, I'd have to say that the the AFP photo was taken first, followed by the AP photos in the order I show them. Another oddity, though not a smoking gun, is that if you accept that order, it appears that the man is making sure the box is tightly closed before pulling it from the convenient hole. Then it remains closed once he gets it out, but he still hits a jackpot of untouched brand new stuffed animals. Not just Raggedy Anne and Minnie Mouse, but notice at the very bottom of AP photo 2 the other stuffed animal parts.

What a coincidence that this box/case, that appears brand new, would be standing upright in that perfectly sized hole in the rubble. But how lucky for this man that an entire pile of untouched pile of American style toys was right there too. It would be crazy to suggest that this man just placed that pink box/case in the hole right before these pictures were snapped, right?

One more toy photo, just for fun, whaddaya say?

A Lebanese civil defense rescuer, throws a toy found in the rubble, as they work to recover the bodies of citizens believed to be trapped under debris and concrete of the destroyed buildings, attacked late Monday by Israeli forces, in the southern Beirut suburb of Chiah, Lebanon, Tuesday Aug. 8, 2006. The raid on the Muslim southern suburb next to a Christian neighborhood killed at least 15 people, police officials said. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)