>>> On 12 October 2003, two suicide bombers drove cars packed with explosives toward the Baghdad Hotel. Iraqi and US personnel fired on them, causing them to crash into a concrete barrier, where their cars exploded. Eight people were killed, including the drivers, and 32 were injured.

The Associated Press filed several versions of this story. It often does this to add new details as a story develops or to correct information. But once in a while, the AP makes changes that are suspect. In this case, they gutted some intriguing information from a witness statement.

The first version of the article, "Deadly Bomb Explodes Near Baghdad Hotel," was filed on 12 Oct 2003 at 8:01 AM. It contained the following paragraphs:

Just seventeen minutes later, the AP released another version of the story onto the newswire. Now titled "Deadly Car Bomb Rocks Central Baghdad," this 8:18 AM version had some new details--and a gutted witness statement:

The AP used the ellipsis (...) to delete Ghulam's description of the driver as a light-skinned non-Iraqi.

Original article on Yahoo News | MemHole mirror of original article

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