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To: yonif
No, AP wrote it was a "military spokesman," without giving a name or title.

If AP wrote it, it's likely made up.

7 posted on 12/08/2003 10:00:00 AM PST by ASA Vet ("Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.")
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To: ASA Vet; Cap Huff; ClearCase_guy
Could be false. But there seems to be a similar headline on the Voice of America website (http://www.voanews.com/).
10 posted on 12/08/2003 10:10:08 AM PST by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: ASA Vet; Cap Huff; yonif
The military spokesman was Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty .
16 posted on 12/08/2003 10:20:45 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: ASA Vet
You caught AP writing more fiction posing as a real news story.

Their use of the unnamed source often makes the NY Slimes look more reliable. We know how un reliabe the Slimes is.
18 posted on 12/08/2003 10:26:41 AM PST by Grampa Dave (3rd Party Whiners are Irrelevant, w/less than 1% of the vote. They are just noisy!)
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