The “Scott Thomas” affair makes the Washington Post:
U.S. military officials are now challenging the veracity of an anonymous diarist who has been writing for the New Republic about misconduct by soldiers in Iraq.
As The Post reported Saturday, the magazine is conducting its own investigation after conservative Web sites questioned the accusations by “Scott Thomas,” who the New Republic says is a soldier in Iraq.
In a statement to the Weekly Standard, Maj. Kirk Luedeke, spokesman for Forward Operating Base Falcon, said he could “immediately refute the assertion that a mass graveyard of children’s skeletons was found” in the area described by the diarist, who had said soldiers played with the skulls.
Luedeke also challenged the diarist’s account that soldiers in a mess hall had mocked a woman whose face was severely scarred from an injury. “We have nobody matching that description here at FOB Falcon,” and while she might have been a visitor, “you would think that someone with such visible wounds would stand out in memorable fashion.”
Read Maj. Luedeke’s statement here.