Conflicting Accounts of Militants' Clashes; Haditha Victims Shot in Head

Bless the MSM. They can be so...trustworthy, unlike bloggers who shoot from the hip.

The two major dailies print differing accounts of major fighting between Sunni militant groups in Baghdad's lawless Amiriya district, providing different analyses of the cause and development of the events, which pitted the Islamic Army and the 1920 Revolution Brigades against al-Qa'ida affiliated groups. As importantly, the two papers print contradictory accounts of US involvement in the fighting, with the Times writing that American forces intervened, but the Post suggesting that they had not.

In other news, US lawyers argued that the victims in the November 2005 Haditha slayings were not killed primarily by grenades, but instead by seemininly well-placed gunshots.

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