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Army Denounces 3 Articles Written by GI
Associated Press/Peoplepc Online ^ | August 9, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 08/09/2007 1:49:33 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20

NEW YORK - A magazine gets a hot story straight from a soldier in Iraq and publishes his writing, complete with gory details, under a pseudonym. The stories are chilling: An Iraqi boy befriends American troops and later has his tongue cut out by insurgents. Soldiers mock a disfigured woman sitting near them in a dining hall. As a diversion, soldiers run over dogs with armored personnel carriers. Compelling stuff, and, according to the Army, not true.

Three articles by the soldier have run since January in The New Republic, a liberal magazine with a small circulation owned by Canadian company CanWest Corp. The stories, which ran under the name "Scott Thomas," were called into question by The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine with a small circulation owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The Standard last month challenged bloggers to check the dispatches.

Since then, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, of the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry, has come forward as the author. The New Republic said that Beauchamp "came to its attention" through Elspeth Reeve, a reporter-researcher at the magazine he later married.

(Excerpt) Read more at home.peoplepc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beauchamp; misinformation; scottthomas; tnr
The Army should nail this slimeball to the wall.
1 posted on 08/09/2007 1:49:36 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: Turret Gunner A20
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2 posted on 08/09/2007 2:25:57 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: Beckwith

And with each cookie your truth quota will increase exponentially! Thank you, Free Republic! Without you I’d be dependent on the lying press.


3 posted on 08/09/2007 3:02:42 AM PDT by SouthCarolinaKit
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To: Turret Gunner A20

Beauchamp is a liar. He has a bright future in the media.


4 posted on 08/09/2007 4:26:34 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Turret Gunner A20
Scott Thomas Beauchamp will likely get an offer to work for CNN, Al Jazeera, or Hezzbollah TV. (MSNBC is not hiring due to financial constraints).
5 posted on 08/09/2007 4:38:54 AM PDT by Shqipo (Anonymous Sedition is a thriller of a read....)
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