[TyroneSlothrop]

Your comment is thoughtful.

Here is my core question for the Inquirer: Why did the editor allow this to be published without further corroboration? Let me put myself in the place of the editor and I will show you what my reasoning process would have been. I read this reporter's story and I come to this line:

"The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 persons, including five children, four women and two men," the report said. "Then they bombed the house, burned three vehicles, and killed their animals."

I assess the likelihood of American forces doing what is here reported at less than 100,000 to 1. I assess the likelihood of some form of disinformation by jihadi or other elements, or some other form of battlefield confusion and rumor mongering at more than 99,000 out of 100,000. I sit on the story and wait for the reporter's follow up, if any.

Here is what I'm afraid the anonymous editor's actual reasoning was: "This is far fetched, but [since I don't know the first thing about the actual nature or workings of our military] it not completely implausible. [Perhaps he would assign it a 1/50 probability]. If it turns out to be a false story we will just let it get lost in the slip stream of news. No harm done [from the Inquirer’s selfish point of view]. If it turns out to be the "My Lai" of Iraq then Schofield and I win big."

I assert that the printing of this article is evidence [not proof, just more evidence], of bias, narcissism, detachment from actual American idealism and values, selfishness, a sense of privileged journalistic entitlement, and subtle moral degeneracy.

[7thOF7th]

Our Country needs to reactivate the Sedition Act and make these traitors accountable for their one sided reporting. Isn't it amazing how these very same media groups extol the importance the first amendment without regard for the responsibility of reporting accurately and unbiasedly. I believe we need to force these so called reporters to be held accountable for what they report and print. If it is determined that known facts are omitted for the purpose of skewing a story the reporter and the publisher must be made to account.

[USS Alaska]

Here is my core question for the Inquirer: Why did the editor allow this to be published without further corroboration?

It has been corroborated. jean pierre kerrie said that our troops were terrorizing the iraqi civilians.