[OldPossum]

A little awkwardness in one part of my previous post: "they could not realize that a private (a private!) could NOT be speaking..."

[hrhdave]

There is plenty of reason to believe that Pfc. Jose Belen exists solely in the mind of the NYTimes reporter. If that's the case, no wonder all the Times' horses and all the Times' men couldn't find Private Jose Belen.

Has the reporter been fired? Has the editor who cleared his report been fired? Only Bill Keller knows.