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Thursday, May 5, 2011

There Was a Dog in the Story

All that was missing from the Bin Laden drama was a heroic dog. If we are to believe that bastion of respectable newspaper journalism, Britain's Sun (I know, I know), there was indeed a dog involved, a dog trained with the SEALs.

UPDATE: a somewhat more dependable source, The New York Times, mentions the dog, but didn't headline it. (They don't have a Page Three Girl, either.)  And Rebecca Frankel has a long essay on War Dogs at Foreign Policy. My dachshund is proud tonight.

2 comments:

Ahmad said...

Perhaps two dogs?

Or at least إبن كلب

Michael Collins Dunn said...

Well,yes, there was an Ibn Kalb in the room, but de mortuis nil nisi bonum.