''Loose lips sink ships'' dept: NPR lets Baghdad statue fraud cat out of the bag

The "happy, joyful Iraqis" in the crowd that pulled down the Saddam statue were in fact US Marines.

Jeremy Whitworth is a US Marine in Baghdad. This morning, National Pentagon Radio's Andy Kaufmann spoke with Jeremy Whitworth's mother who described her son's telephone call to her yesterday. Jeremy told his mother to watch CNN and watch him wave to her from the crowd full of Marines waiting to take down the Saddam statue.

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