Kerry under fire but Vietnamese to rescue

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Members of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group have said that the Viet Cong was a teenager who was alone, wounded and running away when Senator Kerry shot him.

But according to Vo Van Tam, now 54, who was a local Viet Cong commander, there were at least 20 Viet Cong soldiers at Nha Vi when two Swift Boats approached the hamlet. His wife, Vo Thi Vi, 54, told ABC News it was a day that the villagers would never forget. "Everything was destroyed. There's no houses left. They levelled everything. There was no leaves left. The fighting was very fierce."

She was only a couple of hundred metres away when a Swift Boat approached the shore, unleashing a barrage of gunfire. "I ran," she said. "Running fast ... And the Americans came from down there, yelling 'Attack, Attack,' And we ran."

Her husband said the man with the rocket launcher was hit in this barrage of gunfire. Then, he said, "he ran about 18 metres before he died, falling dead". Tam did not know how the rocket launcher man died. But he knows his name - Ba Thang.

Sidney Morning Herald

[Gloria]

1. Coverage in Australia....none here after Nightline..........Typical.

eom

[kskiska]

2. Yeah. I've been waiting to see some articles on the program, too.

Zip.

[ochazuke]

3. If the story had been a TV ad, it would get plenty free coverage

I too have not heard one peep from other news outlets to say what ABC has uncovered.

[rooboy]

4. Of all people, Alan Colmes confronted a Swift Boat Liar...

about this version of the story.

[MADem]

5. Media Matters has it

http://mediamatters.org/items/200410150009

Write to your worst or favorite news program and tell them that America needs to know about this, and that if they had any balls, they'd swallow their pride, call ABC and ASK FOR THE GODDAMN footage. They can add their own bits and bobs, but they need to acknowledge this story. They sure had no problem piling on Dan Rather and even Dildo Reilly, so why so squeamish all of a sudden?