[Minty]

"Fox ran an interview yesterday that showed a prominant Shia cleric in Kuwait who said that the family had been forced to provoke the US soldiers by the Iraq secret police.

Could be the cleric was lying. But that would be a strange thing for a cleric to lie about"

Seems to me the lib paper is more likely to lie through their teeth as much as they can get away with...

[dark_lord]

Well, a couple points.

(1) It is possible that these are 2 different incidents. The quotes from the father (Hassan) came from an interview at the MASH unit. So this is 1st person reporting.

(2) The source is from Knight-Ridder and printed in the Tribune. The Chicago Tribune is not, strictly speaking, a "lib" paper. They are clearly left-wing on issues like gun control, and their "letters to the editor" clearly tend to print the leftist point of view. But their war coverage has been balanced, and they are in general critical of the Daley (socialist) administration.