Napalm Stories Disappearing
Follow-up to my earlier entry on the US using napalm in Iraq (and denying it) and now apparently covering it up?
If you search Google News for “napalm” you’ll find this entry on the second page:
CIA: It really was Saddam on TV
San Jose Mercury News, CA – Mar 20, 2003
… In addition, about 20 GPS-guided 2000-pound bombs, cluster bombs and napalm were to be dropped on an observation post that occupies key terrain, said Col. …
but if you go to that link, no such text appears in that article. And if you search San Jose Mercury News’ website for “napalm” nothing is found. There’s no Google cache of the page either.
So did Google make this up? I doubt it. Or is the San Jose Mercury News changing its stories? Are they under pressure to change their stories?
In the article that remains, we hear: “There’s really nothing up here but a bunch of rubble,” said Cpl. Graham Ahlstrom, 22, from New York.
Could Cpl. Ahlstrom be referring to Safwan Hill, when he says “up here”? It seems likely.
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