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To: LindyBill who wrote (100145)	6/4/2003 5:56:13 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I did; it has various conflicting allegations, and - annoyingly - no link to any online versions, just what seems to be some very selective transcriptions (unless the programme was only about 5 minutes long). It seems to start with the presumption of bias, and then pick the account which it thinks least liberal, as one would expect from the site title. The reports have some odd assertions, which I'm startled that no one else - especially the DoD/Pentagon - would not have made, if they're right: Hospital workers confirm the Iraqi military used the basement as a headquarters. " A doctor told Avila that "what he calls the big heads of the Iraqi army left just six hours before the raid." This would vastly change things, if true... why has no one else before or since mentioned it? On a minor point, I've read no other mention of the troops 'firing blanks' - straw man? verbal mention on this or another show? - and I think this inconceivable. The use of thunder-flashes I would think is SOP for building occupation if you want to avoid structural damage, although I wouldn't underestimate their nastiness (especially to people already in hospital!); on one training exercise I was on a woman was deafened and got vicious leg injuries by one exploding close to her, & the NCO who set it off was charged. but on the JL affair, it still seems to me that there was a surprising effort made by the Iraqis to take good care of her, and none to harm her [post-capture]; and none to hold her in captivity necessitating special ops intervention...