Wednesday, July 12, 2006

About that dog-headed girl

A couple of posts down, I referred to the report (which I first read on Talking Poits Memo) that Sunni rebels in Iraq had decapitated a Shi'ite girl, then sewed a dog's head onto her body. Turns out the whole thing was just a rumor -- rumor reported as fact by the New Republic. The story is here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does this mean that BatBoy is also just an urban myth?

Anonymous said...

sure wish i'd been cataloging this trend: every time there's a horrifying US scandal - abu ghraib, fallujah, etc. - some even more horrifying scandal occurs from the other side (such as nick berg).

so i suppose this dog head crud was predictable, eh?

Anonymous said...

That was a bit near the end of Mars Attacks.