[Diogenesis]

Some say that NBC has ALWAYS been with the terrorists.

---

GOLDEN OLDIE FROM THE INVASION OF BAGHDAD

Couric, representing NBC (and French interests):
"We (at NBC) all hope and pray that Saddam escaped harm, and hopefully fled to Syria."

[The Wizard]

I would have thrown her off for that statement.

[CovenBuster]

Are you serious? Did she really say that? Is there a transcript?

[Paradox]

"We (at NBC) all hope and pray that Saddam escaped harm, and hopefully fled to Syria."

Ya know, I hate Katie as much as the next guy, but I dont buy this quote. Do you have any sources for it?

[Paradox]

I think I found an original source for that (mis)quote, its on the Newsmax website:

The full exchange went like this:

COURIC: Mik, we only have a few seconds left. But quickly,
 anymore information about Saddam Hussein's fate?

MIKLASZEWSKI: Not at all. Wild speculation. But U.S. 
officials insist they still don't know what happened when - 
after they bombed that site in western Baghdad earlier this 
week.


COURIC: So, they haven't been able to confirm reports he 
was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to 
Syria.


MIKLASZEWSKI: That - that's very unlikely considering the 
kind of U.S. forces that are arrayed up there.


COURIC: OK, Mik. Thanks.

Hmmm, maybe a Freudian slip?

[FBD]

Dio,
Please be careful to quote accurately, otherwise we all wind up with egg on our faces.

Regards.

---

From Newsmax; Thursday, April 10, 2003

:
COURIC: “So, they haven't been able to confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria.”

The full exchange went like this:

COURIC: Mik, we only have a few seconds left. But quickly, anymore information about Saddam Hussein's fate?

MIKLASZEWSKI: Not at all. Wild speculation. But U.S. officials insist they still don't know what happened when - after they bombed that site in western Baghdad earlier this week.

COURIC: "So, they haven't been able to confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria."

MIKLASZEWSKI: That - that's very unlikely considering the kind of U.S. forces that are arrayed up there.

COURIC: OK, Mik. Thanks.

[End of Excerpt]

---