In Iraq, weakened terrorists resort to fraud, swallowed by mainstream media

The impotent insurgents
Jack Kelly/Post-Gazette Original Article

History repeats itself, Karl Marx said, "first as tragedy, second as farce." In the days immediately following Iraq's historic election, two videotapes from "insurgent" groups were distributed to the news media. One purported to show an American soldier being held hostage. The second purported to show that a British C-130 transport aircraft, which crashed on election day, had been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.