Gates: Qaddafi Moving Bodies

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday March 27, 2011

Politico reports:

Defense Secretary Robert Gates tells CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that he has seen a number of intelligence reports charging a ghoulish deception by Libya’s Muammar Qadhafi.

CBS released this brief exchange between Gates and anchor Bob Schieffer, taped Saturday for broadcast Sunday:

GATES: “The truth of the matter is we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for. But we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about Qadhafi taking the bodies of the people he’s killed and putting them at the sites where we’ve attacked. We have been extremely careful in this military effort, and not just our pilots but the pilots of the other coalition air forces have really done an extraordinary job.”

SCHIEFFER: “He’s taking bodies and putting them in places?

GATES: “We have a number of reports of that.”

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