My source was there. Yours was in Los Angeles.
Although Alissa J. Rubin may actually be based in D.C.
That the Special Forces part of the Iraqi army are good fighters has been known for months. This is hardly the first example.
As far as the memo example, abstraction seems to be a weak point around here. The correlation between your rejection of a source you didn't like based on no data, compared to your blind acceptance of a source that has been shown to be far from reliable by many sources, is obvious.
