Say WHAT?
From the
New York Times:
White House Corrects Bin Laden Narrative
White House officials on Tuesday sought to correct the official account of the raid in Pakistan that ended in the killing of Osama bin Laden, saying that the Qaeda leader was not armed and that his wife was not killed.
The new Defense Department narrative released by the White House, and read at a White House news briefing on Tuesday, said that one of Bin Laden�s wives was shot in the leg as she charged members of the commando team on the third floor of the compound.
�In the room with Bin Laden, a woman � Bin Laden�s wife � rushed the U.S. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed,� the brief statement said. �Bin Laden was then shot and killed. He was not armed.�
That is a pretty big shift in the story. There were enough people watching that there should not have been any misrepresentation in the first place. What are they hiding?
Jay Carney (White House press secretary) must be channeling his inner Baghdad Bob.
Posted by DaveH at May 3, 2011 4:21 PM