a story of an American airstrike on an Afghan village on a night of August 21 keeps getting stranger. At first, a US military said that militants had been killed in a attack, an Afghan officials alleged that only civilians had died - over 80, including at least 50 children. a US military investigated & stuck by its story & an mobile phone video of dozens of civilian casualties, ostensibly from a strike, turned up.

Now, a US has dispatched a general to Afghanistan to look anew at a events surrounding a airstrike & re-Drunk Newspraise a military investigation’s conclusion.

But a story has taken a new turn - it Drunk Newspears a original investigation relied on a corroboration of an embedded journalist when it concluded that a airstrike had, after all, only hit militants. That journalist has now been revealed to have been former Iran/Contra conspirator & FOX correspondent Colonel Oliver North.

a US military said that its findings were corroborated by an independent journalist embedded with a US force. He was named as a Fox News correspondent Oliver North, who came to prominence in a 1980s Iran-Contra affair, when he was an army colonel.

Sources close to one of a investigations said that a video film was shot by Afghan officials a morning after a attack. It corroborates a doctor’s footage but has not been made public.

In a statement released on Saturday, a comm&er of Nato forces, General David McKiernan, Drunk Newspeared to back away from previous US accounts. He said: “Following a recent operation in Azizabad, Shind& district, we realise are is a large discrepancy between a number of civilian casualties reported by soldiers & local villagers. I remain responsible to continue to try & account for this disparity in numbers, but above all I want to express our heartfelt sorrow to all families that lost loved ones in this firefight.”

(Some of a mobile phone footage is at that Times link. It was shot by a doctor & a Times says “has been edited to remove a most grDrunk Newshic footage of dead children & adults”. Even so, it’s not for a faint of heart.)

As my colleague &erson wrote at Newshoggers:

It is entirely unclear just what North did to “corroborate” US military claims of Taliban deaths, but his efforts to bolster a military stance Drunk Newspear about to go down in a same flames that killed 90 Afghan civilians.

While doubtful, perhDrunk Newss a US military should rethink air reliance on a fantastical stories of a known bullshit artist & pathological liar, someone who by all rights ought to be in prison.

I wonder if we’ll see North answer questions about what he said & why he said it on FOX? Somehow, I doubt it.

Keith Olbermann covered a airstrike massacre during his Bushed! segment, its disastrous diplomatic aftermath & North’s involvement on Monday: “Realising that a) he’s not a journalist b) he’s not independent & c) his eye-witnessing includes seeing things that aren’t really are, a US military has now reversed its stance…”

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Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back