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1 posted on 02/28/2007 6:47:01 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
independently confirmed the report from other media sources.

Dan Rather perhaps?
2 posted on 02/28/2007 6:48:42 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: tobyhill
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SeeBS News is still standing by the story.

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3 posted on 02/28/2007 6:49:00 AM PST by pnh102
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To: tobyhill

How nice of them to admit it a day later, when no one will notice. Right now, all eyes and ears are on the stock markets.


4 posted on 02/28/2007 6:49:00 AM PST by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
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To: tobyhill

I blame Bush!


5 posted on 02/28/2007 6:49:49 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: tobyhill

I believe it was distributed by the AP without verification... straight from an Iraqi 'news' source.


7 posted on 02/28/2007 6:53:00 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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To: tobyhill

ROOOOOOOOOVE!!!!!!


8 posted on 02/28/2007 6:53:44 AM PST by Trueblackman (Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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To: tobyhill

Doesn't matter. Damage done. MSM mission accomplished.


9 posted on 02/28/2007 6:54:09 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (¡El proletariado del mundo, une! - Xuygo Chavez)
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To: tobyhill

Wonder whether Jamil Hussein was their original source...


12 posted on 02/28/2007 6:55:38 AM PST by Zeppo (We live in the Age of Stupidity. [Dennis Prager])
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CNN is now claiming that they also confirmed the incident from the Iraqi Interior Ministry before it got debunked. The Interior Ministry has been one of the main offices of disinformation in the past along with the Health Ministry.


20 posted on 02/28/2007 7:10:05 AM PST by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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I guess there is a reason that the Truman administration imposed full wartime censorship during the Korean "police action." (a FR thread)

Correspondents could not criticize the Allied conduct of the war.
Correspondents could not send demoralizing dispatches.
Correspondents could not report casualties or quote officers without authorization.
Correspondents were placed under the jurisdiction of the army and were subject to court martial for serious offenses.
(more regulations at the link).

22 posted on 02/28/2007 7:30:52 AM PST by syriacus (6 months into Truman's Korean War -- CENSORSHIP imposed; 11,000 US DEATHS; thousands more DRAFTED.)
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http://www.nysun.com/article/49527


Report of Soccer Field Deaths "False"

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
February 28, 2007 posted 9:56 am EST

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A report that 18 boys were killed this week in a car bombing in Ramadi is "false," a senior American military official said Wednesday.
[snip]

But Rear Admiral Mark Fox, an American military spokesman, said "the allegation was false" and suggested that rumors began circulating after a controlled detonation by American forces caused injuries in Ramadi.

On Tuesday, a military statement said 30 civilians and one Iraqi soldier were injured by flying debris when troops destroyed 15 bags of explosives. None of the injuries was life-threatening, it added.

"There was no second blast," Admiral Fox told reporters, "and there was no 18 children killed."


25 posted on 02/28/2007 8:07:19 AM PST by syriacus (6 months into Truman's Korean War -- CENSORSHIP imposed; 11,000 US DEATHS; thousands more DRAFTED.)
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