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Four Words You Didn’t Want to See Together Again

“Judith” “Miller” “Embedded” “Iraq”

By Judith Miller

It was the suicide vest that clinched it.

John C. Myers, a veteran law enforcement officer embedded in the U.S. Army’s 1st Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq’s Anbar province, was certainly familiar with the outlawed amphetamine Captagon.

The bonus word that makes it all the more amusing?

“Newsmax”

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Marcy Wheeler aka Emptywheel is an American journalist whose reporting specializes in security and civil liberties.

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