I've been playing with git bisect in order to determine how the error was introduced.  Here are the details of the first bad commit:

d600831eb70a0c87fca493f1e367193b88844137 is the first bad commit
commit d600831eb70a0c87fca493f1e367193b88844137
Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Oct 23 14:43:00 2010 +0200

    Use better regexp for finding image links
    
    * lisp/org.el (org-display-inline-images): Improve regexp

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