Perhaps the caption that the photographer supplied (I'm told that this is usually the origin of the caption) said it was a knife. The Post editors surely realized that it was not a knife, though, but they went so far as to call attention to it with a headline for the picture itself. Were they making a joke about the competency of the Reuters photographer to recognize what was in his own photographs, especially, perhaps, after taking a bullet that "grazed his head"?

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