I agree 100% with Malleus on this one. Using news photos to illustrate commentary on the piece of news in question isn't an issue. And I don't see what "being a US encyclopedia" has to do with it, since this user's opinions on the US do not seem exactly favourable. Seriously, let it go; there's a lot of far  dubious  floating around Wikipedia, and that's before one even starts to look at Shankbone's contributions to the sum of all human knowledge over on Commons. –