“Shock Troops” Blog Round-Up

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UDATED 3:02 pm UPDATED 3:57 pm The blog at the American Spectator has some great stuff on “Shock Troops.” John Tabin finds more suspect information in a previous story by “Scott Thomas”. In his second piece for the New Republic titled “Dead of Night,” “Thomas” had written,

Someone reached down and picked a shell casing up off the ground. It was 9mm with a square back. Everything suddenly became clear. The only shell casings that look like that belong to Glocks. And the only people who use Glocks are the Iraqi police.

Tabin writes, “I’ve Googled in vain for evidence of 9mm cartridge that features a “square back.” As far as I can tell, 9mm Glocks fire the same type of ammo as the Beretta M9 — the standard-issue Army sidearm. Am I missing something?” Apparently not. A reader at that site responds:

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