Fabricated Photo Shared as John McCain Awarding Member of Islamic State Group

Misbar’s team investigated the circulated photo and found it fake. The photo is fabricated; it was manipulated to appear as if McCain was awarding a medal to a member of the Islamic State group. However, the actual photo was taken in July 2010 as the senator awarded Antonio Aburto during a promotion ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. 

McCain served as a member of the U.S. Congress for about 30 years and ran for the U.S. presidential elections for the Republican Party in 2008, but lost it to Barack Obama, the Democratic Party candidate then. McCain died after a struggle with cancer in 2018, at the age of 81.

Translated by Ahmed N. A. Almassri