New York Times Rewrites Fallujah History

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In three recent reports about the military invasion of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the New York Times has misreported the facts about the April 2004 invasion of the city and the toll it took on Iraqi civilians.

On November 8, the Times reported: “In April, American troops were closing in on the city center when popular uprisings broke out in cities across Iraq. The outrage, fed by mostly unconfirmed reports of large civilian casualties, forced the Americans to withdraw. American commanders regarded the reports as inflated, but it was impossible to determine independently how many civilians had been killed.”

The next day, the Times made the same point, reporting that the U.S. “had to withdraw during a previous fight for the city in April after unconfirmed reports of heavy civilian casualties sparked outrage among both Sunni and Shiite Iraqis.” And on November 15, the Times noted that the current operation “redressed a disastrous assault on Fallujah last April that was called off when unconfirmed reports of large civilian casualties drove the political cost too high.”

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ACTION: Please contact New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent and ask him to investigate why the Times treats credible reports of hundreds of civilian casualties in Fallujah as “unconfirmed.”

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New York Times
Daniel Okrent, Public Editor
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