Two things: one not in the "news" and another that WAS in the news

Not surprising that this story hasn't made the queue for mass media podpeople to tell us. It seem that U.S. Marine snipers have taken a BIG bite out of the terrorists investing the city of Hit, Iraq. A squad of snipers from the 1/23 Marines have taken out about a company's number of terrorists who had invested the city and were controlling citizens, traffic, etc. (HT to Hamilton—be sure to read the comments there, as well.) And here's a story that CBS "News" (of all places) ran on April 4, 2003—about 18 months before they planned on running a last-minute hit piece on President Bush about the same locale. Notice that six days before the 101 Airborne came through al Qaqaa, the 3rd Infantry Division, which was tasked with locating WMD, etc., spent some time actually searching for dangerous materials at al Qaqaa—and did find some suspicious materials that were sent off for analysis, but NO RMX/HMX explosives. (Cos they weren't there.) Check CBS's own story that contradicts the NYT and the story CBS was planning to run on 10-31-04. (HT to The Belmont Club)