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EXCLUSIVE: We Called Out the Pentagon for Undercounting U.S. Casualties in Iran. They Keep Doing It.
After we exposed what one source called a “casualty cover-up,” the Pentagon offered another lowball count.
Nick Turse
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Nick Turse
@nickturse
Senior reporter: @theintercept
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- Kissinger’s Killing Fields Interviews with 75+ witnesses and survivors of U.S. attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known. My latest @theintercept
- I think it’s past time to stop using African nations as the benchmark of failure and start thinking about the USA as the protypical failing stateYou can get a Covid test with results five times faster in Rwanda than in the United States. We are a failed nation.
- I wrote a 1200-page dissertation on US atrocities in Vietnam but didn't understand the horror of the war until I went to Vietnam, traveled through the countryside, and talked to people about what it was like to live for years under bombs, artillery shells & helicopter gunships🧵Just think about @nickturse seminal “ kill anything that moves “ and you will never see Nixon or Kissinger again without thinking of senseless extermination of 3 million lives
- Only the best lawyers publicly announce that you're a snitch just before you head off to prison.In asking for a lighter sentence, Tarrio’s lawyers pointed out that he has a history of working undercover with law enforcement. huffpost.com/entry/enrique-…
- So many Cambodians -- maybe 150,000 -- didn't live to read this guide due to Henry Kissinger. That should have been the first bit of advice from David: Don't be Cambodian while my dad was in the White House. theintercept.com/2023/05/23/hen…
- During this, no doubt fleeting, moment when Americans seem to care desperately about Afghan lives, it’s a good time to look back on some earlier coverage that some may have missed…. 🧵
- Napalm? Yep, napalm. Lonnie Coffman, 70, an Alabama grandfather drove to Washington to attend Trump’s “Save America Rally” in a pickup packed with an assault rifle, three handguns and 11 Mason jars filled with homemade napalm, according to court filings.
- New from me @theintercept: Military service is the single strongest individual predictor of becoming a “mass casualty offender,” far outpacing mental health issues, according to a sophisticated study by @START_UMD 🧵🧵🧵
- Every bit of this is pure gold... “An Australian astrophysicist has been admitted to hospital after getting four magnets stuck up his nose in an attempt to invent a device that stops people touching their faces during the coronavirus outbreak.” gu.com/p/dhejy/stw
- I did conflict zone coverage in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo for them. Which war zones did you work in?
- Replying to @nickturseThe U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Command is investigating Capt. Emily Rainey’s involvement in the Wednesday rally. The 30-year-old psy ops officer told the AP she led 100 members of Moore County Citizens for Freedom who traveled to Washington to “stand against election fraud”
- In U.S. Military, Sexual Assault Against Men Is Vastly Under-Reported. An average of 45 male service members are sexually assaulted every day, according to Pentagon statistics. My latest @theintercept
