Inventing Atrocities .... A media tradition.

National Review ^ | August 10, 2007 | James S. Robbins

[supremedoctrine]

I don’t remember that timeline at all.
I remember the gruesome story FIRST of Jihadists’ kidnapping and murder of American soldiers, for no
reason , revenge or otherwise, other than we were “their
enemy” and that’s what they do to their enemies.
THen as the story slowly leaked out and took shape of the rape/murder , the two were tied in a “cause and effect”.
Maybe I wasn’t paying attention like you were. But the fact is, then, that neither were most people, if the two stories were related to one another at all at first.

[Grimmy]

I may be the one wrong in the remembered timelines. The fact still remains true that there was no value to anyone other than the enemy in the public reporting of the crime committed. It was being prosecuted. There was no value in broadcasting it except as an effort to further motivate our enemy.