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...quoting unnamed officials, described the harrowing events of Lynch's capture. Portraying her as a female Rambo, the sources explained how Lynch, 19, continued to fire at Iraqi soldiers even after being shot several times. Many news organizations (including TIME) reiterated this version of events, citing the Post. The BBC program implied that the Pentagon publicly released details of her stab and bullet wounds (in an article in the British paper the Guardian, the show's producer explicitly states as much), then presented the Iraqi doctors who treated her asserting that she had no such wounds. But the Pentagon initially...
...victim of a major intelligence blunder. A parliamentary inquiry is likely. Blair has a reputation for aggressive spinning, and if it's proved that he torqued up WMD evidence to serve his p.r. needs, he might even be pushed toward resignation. An intelligence official told the BBC that a dubious claim in the WMD dossier Blair released last September--that some of Saddam's troops were trained to deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes--was penned in at the last minute by Downing Street aides. Another charge in the dossier, that Iraq was procuring tons of uranium from Africa...
...recent BBC special has questioned the almost mythic quality of the Lynch story line. But in trying to show that the U.S. stage-managed the rescue, the British network may be guilty of exaggeration itself, with its claim that the Pentagon manipulated information to produce "one of the most stunning pieces of news management ever conceived." The key controversies...
...They just see war, famine and oppression." Expect more happy days in Mma Ramotswe's future - more lessons in Botswana etiquette, more neatly solved cases, maybe even a wedding to her longtime fiancé, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. And McCall Smith's future is busily happy, too: On Sunday, the bbc will air a documentary in which he returns to Botswana to revisit the inspirations for his tales and characters. Look for the author's next two series, with typically droll titles. Out in August are three short, satirical works: Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs...
...meeting in Aqaba, there was widespread anger at the perception that Abbas had said many things the Israelis and Americans wanted to hear, but had avoided articulating Palestinian grievances. "There was no Palestinian voice at Aqaba," Palestinian human rights campaigner and longtime Arafat critic Mustafa Barghouti told the BBC. And the summit was condemned during Friday prayers in mosques throughout the West Bank...