Oops. The initial report from the U.S. military about an incident in Karbala last weekend said five U.S. service members were killed repelling an attack by an armed group disguised as an American security team. Today, the AP reported that four of the five were actually abducted and found dead or dying some 25 miles from the compound where they were captured. Larry Johnson has more.
Update: Perhaps some tone deafness on my part. The “Oops” was of course a reference to the inaccurate original report of the attack and the long delay in correcting the account of what actually happened in Karbala, as Larry Johnson lays out. Some readers took it as a callous reference to the deaths of U.S. servicemen, which was certainly not my intent.
