March 26th 2007, OP Omar, Iraq-- At about 11:00 am I was standing in a fighting tower recording video and talking to the paratroopers manning their post, when one uttered a memorable line:

"Hopefully they'll grow some balls and just bound on us and try to overrun us," the paratrooper said,  "but they don't want to die that quickly."

I moved on to the rest of the towers, finishing up at the one manned by Specialist Jason Stegall.

Two hours later a Suicide truck bomb rumbled toward Stegall.

To remember that day, and ensure the story of Blackfoot Company is told, I am slashing the price of the Danger Close DVD.

Today (Extended dure to popular demand!) only the 'Danger Close' single disc will sell for $10.

Createspace, an Amazon.com company, will not let us sell it any cheaper.

As the car dealers say, this is invoice pricing.

The Washington Post covered the events of day.  Below is the entire report:

"Also on Tuesday, the U.S. military said soldiers at an Anbar province military post foiled an attack Monday involving two suicide truck bombs and more than two dozen insurgents.

"The attack began about 2 p.m. when an explosives-rigged water truck barreled toward the compound in Karmah, near Fallujah, prompting a soldier to fire on the vehicle, setting it ablaze, the military said in a statement. About 30 armed men with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and other weapons then began trading fire with soldiers. Minutes later, soldiers fired on and detonated a second truck that was approaching the post, the military said.

"Eight U.S. soldiers were wounded, and 15 insurgents were killed, the military said."

What is remarkable is how those 5 sentences came to be.

WaPo Staff writer Karin Brulliard initially challenge the Marine Public Affairs Officer's recounting of the gunfight.

Ms. Brulliard had apparantly received a press release from the Mohammedan Jihadist group that organized the attack.

If I recall correctly, Ms. Brulliard cited the Jihadist press releases account of 'tens' of soldiers being killed when challenging the Marine PAO's statement.

As it turned out--and I know this, because I was the only reporter at OP Omar that day--only 1 U.S. Soldier needed to be evacuated by helicopter for a serious, but non-life-threatening wound.

About half the soldiers, like me, wound up receiving some sort of medical treatment for cuts, scrapes and subcutaneous shrapnel.

The only people who died were the ones driving the suicide truck bombs and other Jihadists.

The line by Ms. Brulliard of "Eight U.S. soldiers were wounded" give the impression that they were shot or otherwise seriously harmed.  Which is not true.

Nearly every laundry-list story of Iraq suffers the same disconnect from actuality.

Recently I was forwarded this blog by a Soldier in Iraq about this recent Washington Post story.

Who are you going to believe?

Read Ms. Brulliard's account of what happened at OP Omar on March 26th 2007, then watch my documentary.

You will never read the newspaper the same way again.

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