NY Times Strike Three — You’re Out!
Posted By: 'Okie' | 10:05 am — 4/3/2006 | 
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I’m sure if you want to go back a bit, the Gray Lady has struck out before, a lot even, but with the most recent at bat finally over — Strike One [Identified the wrong man as the hooded Abu Graib victim] — Strike Two [Bought into the fraud of a supposed Hurricane Katrina victim], and now . . .
Strike Three is the March 27th article: 30 Beheaded Bodies Found; Iraqi Death Squads Blamed . You remember that one don’t you? Seems like it was everywhere! Well, NY Times author Jeffery Gettleman joins a long list of either lairs, incompetents or just plain deranged New York Times writers because the story isn’t true.
UPI reports: [h/t: Powerline]
A top U.S. general in Iraq said reports that 30 headless bodies were found north of Baghdad were false.
“We went to multiple sites to look for the 32 headless bodies that was reported to our headquarters, and we did not find anything; nor did any of the local citizens that were in these areas could verify that anybody had ever been in there. So I look at that report as completely false right now,” said Maj. Gen. James Thurman, the commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division.
The 4th ID is responsible for Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala and Babil provinces. It took over Baghdad — one of the most dangerous places to serve in Iraq — on Jan. 7.
OK, so the Iraqi police did report 30 headless bodies at Mulla Eed, but you would think that the major U.S. newspaper(?) would verify the story with our own guys who are in control of the place before running something so inflammatory. Right? Hey — never check the facts — might interfere with the agenda! Sounds like a great new masthead for the Times!
Greyhawk over at Mudville Gazette was all over this on Saturday:
In short, some guy said he knew a guy that saw them. Which is how the story should have been reported – as a rumor. But it wasn’t.
(…)
But apparently within the standards of acceptable journalism for the New York Times.
Greyhawk even provides a link to the NY Times story that prints a retraction, waaaaaaaay down in ‘graph 17 of this story.
The police in western Baghdad discovered 14 bodies on Tuesday, all killed execution-style with gunshots to the head, apparently the latest victims of sectarian bloodletting. On Monday, Iraqi forces found 18 bodies near Baquba with similar wounds. Earlier reports of 30 beheaded bodies found in that area were wrong, the Interior Ministry official said.
Whoops! Youuuuur Ouuuut! Both tits already caught up in the wringer — must be somethin’ else this time!
Yeah, I’m mixin’ metaphors — make somethin’ of it. 
(db)
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