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Friday, November 19, 2004
The Facts
War Crimes?
Oliver North has the full context
For the record, here are the facts, because facts -- not rumors or emotions -- really are important. Here is what those who were there told me:
Read the whole thing.
Why didn't the original story include the fact that a Marine in the same unit had been killed 24 hours earlier while searching the booby-trapped dead body of a terrorist?
Within hours of the videotaped incident in the mosque, another Marine was killed and five others wounded by a booby-trapped body they found in a house after a gunfight. Why was this not made part of the original story?
Recap:
But Falklands veteran Quintin Wright says that this is just what soldiers are trained to do
They're Called Security Rounds
'Supporting the troops'?
- posted by Jean @ 7:02 AM
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