heard on the news

[sagehen]

"For the third time, a member of  Saddam Hussein's defense team has been
murdered   ........"!  (from one of the periodic news updates on All Things
Considered 6/21/06).
An hour later, on BBC the same news item was written as: "A third member of
Saddam Hussein's defense team was  &c. "
NPR's wording had been corrected by later newscasts.
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