Re: Is that they call discriminate fire? Yes, actually...

Tarver Engineering wrote:
> "Vince Brannigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > So according to Tarver when a senior governemtn official tells Reuters
> > something, and reuters reports what that government official says
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> Reuters is in Iraq and can report what they see.

nonsense Reuters interviewed a seniro government official. no reporter 
has claimed to have seen, nuch less counted any bodies in the field.
the bodhy count came directly formt he US government

Whether it was inflated is the issue , but not its source



U.S. military resumes reporting enemy body count

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
December 2, 2003

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The enemy body count is back. Sort of.

U.S. military officials, in their regular news briefings in Iraq, have 
quietly begun reporting on enemy "KIA," or killed in action, after 
months of declining to detail the other side's losses.

Etc.

Vince