CentCom Casting

July 29, 2005

U.S. military officials recently found themselves in the awkward position of having to explain why two news releases, about two separate insurgent attacks in Iraq, included virtually the same quotation from an unidentified Iraqi. An Army spokesman called it an "administrative error," but we weren't so sure. And so we phoned Mr. "Unidentified Iraqi" to get the real story.


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