A lie repeated becomes the Mercury News.

Up to her old tricks, San Jose reporter Karen de Sa repeats the Herold fabrication about deaths in Afgahnistan: Mercury News | 02/13/2002 | Unlikely activists oppose war There is no official tally of Afghan civilians killed by U.S. bombs, but Marc Herold, a University of New Hampshire economics professor researching the subject, estimates that … Continue reading “A lie repeated becomes the Mercury News.”

Up to her old tricks, San Jose reporter Karen de Sa repeats the Herold fabrication about deaths in Afgahnistan: Mercury News | 02/13/2002 | Unlikely activists oppose war

There is no official tally of Afghan civilians killed by U.S. bombs, but Marc Herold, a University of New Hampshire economics professor researching the subject, estimates that 2,000 to 4,000 have been killed.

It seems that Ms. de Sa needs some e-mails correcting this claim, since the truth is more likely in the hundreds. [email protected].