[Anti-Bubba182]

"The thing that convinced me that I had to do the story was when we got this 8 year-old girl who came and just told this absolutely horrifying story, and what convinced me about her story was that she only talked about what she knew. She wasn't being coached to talk about things she hadn't seen or witnessed directly..."

Was McGirk dropped on his head as a child? What is so hard about coaching an eight year old beforehand? More likely what convinced him was Time Magazine's well known fondness for anti-military stories and his eagerness to accomodate them. I notice he is now a shiny new bureau chief.

[Sam Hill]

Yes, that's a telling thing for McGirk to say. But he seems to be hopelessly naive (to be too find):

Haditha Reporter’s Thanksgiving With The Taliban | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/times-haditha-reporter-had-thanksgiving-2001-with-taliban

But the real elephant in the room is that McGirk keeps changing the story on who made the videotape.

This one videotape is the primary "document" driving this story.

And now McGirk says that it was not shot by Taher Thabet.

So if Taher Thabet lied about shooting the video, maybe he lied about everything else?

This is an OUTRAGEOUS thing for McGirk not to know or to lie about.

[AmeriBrit]

She wasn't being coached to talk about things she hadn't seen or witnessed directly..."

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Of course she wasn't coached, just like the male at the morgue isn't waiting for a cue from whoever's making the video before starting his faux act over one of the bodies.[sarc]
This whole massacre incident has more holes than a kitchen colander and is a set up from the gitgo to make our troops look like the bad guys. McGirk's been around a long time and was anxious for his 15 minutes fame to start.

[MrCruncher]

[Drammach]

What is so hard about coaching an eight year old beforehand?

Coaching or not, an 8 year old is not making a distinction between marine and terrorist in a military uniform..

Think about it.. How often have reports of weapon caches found by marines included military uniforms? About 75% ? 80 ?

The girl saw people in uniforms, they killed family..
Whether it was marine or terrorists in stolen uniforms is up for grabs..
All that kid saw was "soldiers"..