[Ronin]

AC130 Spectre attack helicopters flew overhead five times, hovering and firing at close range.

Blimey! A C-130 that hovers.

Sheesh! After reading that I gave up on the rest. This was obviously written by some idiot taking notes from a cell phone call.

[archy]

Sheesh! After reading that I gave up on the rest. This was obviously written by some idiot taking notes from a cell phone call.

D'accord, and many good reports are strangled at birth by unknowledgable hack rewrite and editing jobs, to be certain. But it sounds like they got this part right:

Witnesses said it was quickly apparent that trained soldiers were taking part in the assault, as the ragged bursts of Alliance machine-gun fire were replaced by the steady single-shooting of marksmen.

[HardStarboard]

>>>This was obviously written by some idiot taking notes from a cell phone <<<

Right on - and he lies too! Please read the paragraph below that I posted earlier on another thread.

"I read a transcript from a Time Mag reporter on the scene who clearly said the reporter that set the whole prison mele off was from the "Guardian"! Thats the most liberal paper in England - leave it to the liberals to screw things up. The Time report said that the prisoners reacted negatively (ie: setting off grenades) to the presence of his obviously "western" face. He had walked into a group of prisoners - an act that the Time guy said he had been warned against." (end previous post)

Now the UK (UcK) Times and the New York Times are in a conspiracy to revise the truth (and history) only 48 hours after the fact! Is that a new record for the liberal press - probably not!!

[D2BAH]

I have yet to see a reporter who know squat about guns, airplanes, wildlife, and a good deal more. They have a hard enough time spelling anything accurately, and the basis for their "who, what, when, where, why and how" often appears to be their own conjecture, based on whatever meager life experiences they may have had prior to becoming "a journalist" to improve the human condition and make the world a better place. (Guffaw!)