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Mike Boettcher, veteran foreign correspondent at NBC and CNN, filed his first report for ABC World News. Boettcher was at Camp Bostick in Afghanistan, where he discovered the same spin about civilian casualties that CBS anchor Katie Couric found when she was in country earlier in the month. The dispute concerns airstrikes that killed as many as 140 civilians in Farah Province five weeks ago. Boettcher reported the charge by US military brass that "Taliban fighters devised a deliberate plan to create a civilian casualty crisis" by forcing villagers to surround them while the attack was under way. Boettcher did not report on the Taliban's version of events, observing merely that the war in Afghanistan is now being fought "with words and deeds, truth and lies, not just bombs and bullets."
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