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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBreaking: "NBC’s Brian Williams Drops Claims To Have Been Personally Beheaded by Al Qaeda"
"NEW YORK NBC news anchor Brian Williams has publicly dropped his claim that he was personally beheaded by al Qaeda in Iraq, saying he had misremembered the event.
Williams, known as The Most Trusted NBC Nightly News Anchor in America has admitted, I was never captured by al Qaeda in Iraq in May 2004, nor murdered by AQI leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi in a notorious propaganda video."
Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/02/brian-williams-drops-claim-beheaded-by-al-qaeda/#ixzz3RDI81FbG
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Breaking: "NBC’s Brian Williams Drops Claims To Have Been Personally Beheaded by Al Qaeda" (Original Post)
Kaleva
Feb 2015
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braddy
(3,585 posts)1. I just knew it, I was suspicious of his claim of being beheaded, from the very beginning.
Kaleva
(36,354 posts)4. I like the ‘The Most Trusted NBC Nightly News Anchor in America’ part!
It's pretty easy being the most trusted when one is the ONLY NBC Nightly News Anchor in America.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)2. LOL!
Is he sure?
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)3. Bwahahaha!
Good one.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)5. Well see,
He just "conflated" his head with another's.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)6. I thought he was the one doing the beheading
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)7. Well, he is a talking head so it could have happened....
and we may not have known if the camera angle was just right.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)8. I believed him
Apparently I just lost my head for a moment.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)9. It's understandable.
After all, Brian's never been quite the same since he was assassinated in that motorcade in Dallas.
Dr. Strange
(25,925 posts)10. The important thing is not to blame all of Islam.
This was the act of a very small sect of Islam, created in the 70s by Brian Williams (peace be upon him) while he was in college.
Blue Owl
(50,507 posts)11. Rumor has it some heads will be rolling over at NBC
n/t
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)12. "NBC--we're one step a head of the news."
Blue Owl
(50,507 posts)13. "And now tonight's top story decap... er, I mean recap...."
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)17. Gotta love their talking heads. nt
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)14. yet .................he was there
I saw it on the internet.............lol
Exhibit A
(318 posts)15. LOL! n/t
MFM008
(19,820 posts)16. ouch baby
very ouch lol.