[Dstorm]

No, This portion of the article told me the author just couldn’t help himself and exposed his story as a mixture of fiction and fact.

This was the start of day that claimed many civilian casualties. After the lorry a truck came down the road. Again the marines fired. Inside, four men were killed. They had been travelling with some 10 other civilians, mainly women and children who were evacuated, crying, their clothes splattered in blood. Hours later a dog belonging to the dead driver was still by his side

[HarryCaul]

A google on Franchetti shows he was the the Moscow reporter for the Times, and was the only reporter allowed in to interview the terrorists in that theater takeover last year.

Make of that what you will.