Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Pretty regularly, the news aggregators will fill up with stories about this or that operation in Iraq in which x number of insurgents were killed and y number arrested. Given that journalists are unable to venture much beyond the Green Zone in Baghdad for fear of their lives, these numbers are generally coming directly from CentCom headquarters without verification. That should be reason enough to take them with a grain of salt. A much more disturbing reason is shown in the following before and after pictures, where RPGs magically appear beside dead bodies.
Warning: the linked page contains many pictures of bullet-riddled teenaged corpses.
TrackBackI find it a little weird that the other soldiers would let the one guy take pictures of the kids before they put the RPGs next to them especially after Abu Ghraib and since you can't see any of the soldiers faces.
Posted by: Hanke at June 21, 2005 05:54 AMThough, I could see them deciding to put the RPGs there after the first pictures were taken and just telling the photographer to destroy the other photos later. And those kids do look like they've actually been shot...
Posted by: Hanke at June 21, 2005 10:42 PM