Bowling Green in the news

[struggle4progress]

... Conway made a reference to two Iraqi refugees whom she described as the masterminds behind “the Bowling Green massacre.” “Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered,” Conway said. The ... massacre didn’t get covered because it didn’t happen ...
Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’ to defend travel ban
By Samantha Schmidt
February 3 at 9:32 AM

... most people don't know that purported "new information" because it describes something that did not transpire ... Conway said in a tweet, "Honest mistakes abound" ...
'Bowling Green Massacre' Claim Snarls Conway
February 3, 20179:53 AM ET
BILL CHAPPELL

... Bowling Green, Ky., the most populous city bearing that name, took exception to the make-believe bloodbath Friday, its Twitter account confirming that the metropolis has been slaughterless for some time ...
Faux massacre mocked by Bowling Green
BRIAN LISI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, February 3, 2017, 11:04 AM

... this case is certainly important to understand. On Jan. 31, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also made a reference to it. Referring to a 2011 slowdown in the processing of Iraqi refugees, Paul said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe:” “This was done by President Obama in response to the possibility or the attempted bombing in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where I live” ... Here’s what Conway got wrong in her original statement: There was no massacre in Bowling Green. The discovery that former Iraqi bomb makers had been admitted as refugees was widely covered. They were not “radicalized’ after they came to the United States ...
Conway’s ‘Bowling Green massacre’
By Glenn Kessler
February 3 at 9:55 AM

... Her description of the 2011 Obama administration policy as a ban was also a mischaracterization, which she didn’t correct. Obama never banned Iraqi refugees or other Iraqi travelers from coming to the United States ... The slowdown was prompted by the May 2011 arrest of two men in Kentucky charged with plotting to send weapons and money to al-Qaida operatives abroad. Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, were mistakenly admitted to the U.S. as Iraqi refugees in 2009 and resettled in Bowling Green ... Alwan and Hammadi are in prison after pleading guilty. They were never accused of plotting to launch attacks inside the U.S. ...
Conway says she misspoke
02/03/2017, 09:56am
Patrick Mairs

[niyad]

1. NO, you anorexic conjob, you flat-out LIED. period, end of sentence, YOU LIED.

[malaise]

5. That's all she does

LIE

[dem4decades]

2. I'm so pleased that someone pointed out the "ban" lie too

[old guy]

3. What amazes me,

is why any media goes any where near this scumbag. It is completely irresponsible journalism to continue to put her and her lies in front of the people. Of course journalistic integrity is not what they go for. Oh well.

[gademocrat7]

4. Conjob is pathological liar.

Lying is a job skill in the drump cabal.