Cross-posted from Confederate Yankee:
The editors of The New Republic seem to be sticking to their story… just quite a bit less of it:
We’ve talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement. When we called Army spokesman Major Steven F. […]
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Posted in Lorie Byrd, Military on Aug 7th, 2007
From The Plank (the New Republic blog):
We’ve talked to military personnel directly involved in the events that Scott Thomas Beauchamp described, and they corroborated his account as detailed in our statement. When we called Army spokesman Major Steven F. Lamb and asked about an anonymously sourced allegation that Beauchamp had recanted his articles in a […]
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Cross-posted at The Jawa Report:
Remember the 200 -300 civilians that were allegedly killed by a U.S. airstrike against top Taliban leaders? The Taliban claimed that what the U.S. really bombed was a busy market. Upon hearing claims of heavy civilian casualties, NATO investigated. Number of actual civilians killed: ZERO.
It’s not so much that the Taliban […]
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