U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With 'Bait'

Washington Post by Josh White, Joshua Partlow | Sep. 24, 2007 (News Report)

Snipers Describe Classified Program

A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to military court documents.

The classified program was described in investigative documents related to recently filed murder charges against three snipers who are accused of planting evidence on Iraqis ... Full Story »

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by Andy Jamieson - Oct. 1, 2008

Only the 2nd half of this article qualifies as "journalism". The first half is a red herring. US GI's Sandoval & Hensley killed a Iraqi who was cutting the grass with a rusty sickle, and they planted a spool of wire in his pocket to make it look like they shot an insurgent. Even for the Pentagon, that's murder. The "baiting" operation is described in this story to throw you off the scent of the actual events: Two American soldiers murdered an Iraqi gardener in cold blood. The WAPO story does not illuminate these events. It obscures them.