Am I the only person on earth that remembers that this SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED IN AFGANISTAN A FEW MONTHS AGO?
There were all these cries of victimizing immediately after dozens were murdered "at a wedding", and the media picked up on it and reported it as fact.
Then a week later it came out that not only was the US not guilty of murder, but it was a lie that it was a wedding, because the attack happened at 3 in the morning on a convoy.
As soon as this happened, I saw this on Fox's website-and instantly thought of this similar story, and lo and behold, it sounds like the terrorists dared to lie...again.
Stupid media.
I have read that it is considered a virtue , in Arabic culture, for an Arab man to be able to lie effectively. Evidently they spend a great deal of time fabricating intricate lies - usually to extract money from a fellow Arab.
Evidently we are dealing here with a few of the less creative types! Either that or they think we in the West have awfully short memories!
You silly, terrorist don't lie! Only the administration and the military lie. Don't you realize we've been looking for a wedding celebration to blow up real good? It's been hours since our last atrocity! </sarcasm
I remembered. I posted the following as soon as the story broke while some others were wondering how we could do such a thing:
Taking into account the mandatory briefings on local customs our people get, the sophisticated level of sensory equipment in our helicopters and the time of day this occurred:
1.These were armed insurgents
2.They purposely fired on us
3.They learned the power of Vulcan