Ed at Captain’s Quarters [1] is reporting that the stories about the demise if that Iraqi wedding party under the wilting US attack were a little offbase:
“I know that the original reports didn’t mention the 3 AM attack time, which seems to discredit the notion that the target could have been a wedding party in full swing. Instead, the Pentagon insists that they had intelligence pointing to this location being used as a transit point for terrorists going in and out of Iraq, and the material captured at the location indicated they were correct. Wedding parties don’t need satcom radios, for instance, and while the Iraqi dinar is worth pennies now, that amount in Syrian pounds (not dinars) comes to $57,000 and some change. “
Syrian Pounds?
Hmmm.