Uh Oh:One more Iraq Fugg up!

[malaise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6239896.stm

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A group of villagers in Iraq is bitterly disputing the US account of a deadly air attack on 22 June, in the latest example of the confusion surrounding the reporting of combat incidents there. The BBC's Jim Muir investigates:

On 22 June the US military announced that its attack helicopters, armed with missiles, engaged and killed 17 al-Qaeda gunmen who had been trying to infiltrate the village of al-Khalis, north of Baquba, where operation "Arrowhead Ripper" had been under way for the previous three days.

The item was duly carried by international news agencies and received widespread coverage, including on the BBC News website.

But villagers in largely-Shia al-Khalis say that those who died had nothing to do with al-Qaeda. They say they were local village guards trying to protect the township from exactly the kind of attack by insurgents the US military says it foiled.
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Looks like total fugging confusion as the right hand doesn't know what the left one is doing.

[ShortnFiery]

1. You didn't get the latest PsyOps memo? All insurgents, civilians and livestock killed are al-Quaeda

gunman. Along with reporting the "body count" progress that served them so well in The Vietnam War, our blessed Pentagon along with our complicit M$M will LABEL all killings are ONLY of the dastardly al Quaeda. :eyes:

PUBLIC AFFAIRS - Office of the Fatherland Security: We're killing scores of them but they're every DAMN where - under every bed. :scared: And they'll be coming to your town if you DARE allow Dear Leader to pull our troops out of Iraq. :crazy:

[malaise]

4. Looks that way indeed

What a clusterfuck.

[EFerrari]

2. Anyone that the military kills becomes al Qaida by default.

How many of these stories have we read? Good morning, Viet Nam. :mad:

[Ian David]

3. They've been "Posthumously Liberated." n/t

[Kingshakabobo]

5. Meh. Don't worry about them. God will sort them out. n/t