What TIME said about Haditha in March 2006:

the details of what happened that morning in Haditha are more disturbing, disputed and horrific than the military initially reported. According to eyewitnesses and local officials interviewed over the past 10 weeks, the civilians who died in Haditha on Nov. 19 were killed not by a roadside bomb but by the Marines themselves, who went on a rampage in the village after the attack, killing 15 unarmed Iraqis in their homes, including seven women and three children.

What TIME said about Diyala this month:

The horrible discovery in Diyala Province Monday was disturbing even by the standards of Iraq’s running sectarian violence. Iraqi police said they found 20 decapitated bodies dumped near a police station west of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province.

What these stories have in common is that they are totally untrue. There was no “rampage” in Haditha, and there were no “20 decapitated bodies” in Diyala.

We discussed the Haditha fabrication last year. Gateway Pundit discusses Diyala and five similar bogus stories that have appeared just since November. The two TIME articles above use the word “disturbing” to describe events. That word might apply to the MSM reports — if such events were not all too common today.

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