Never forget the Bowling Green Massacre

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/06/kellyanne-conway-referenced-bowling-green-attack-in-tmz-interview.html

Quote:Kellyanne Conway Referenced ‘Bowling Green Attack’ in TMZ Interview

There’s a new, third time Trump’s counselor talked about a fictitious terrorist attack — undermining the excuse she misspoke.

Kellyanne Conway referred to a fictitious “Bowling Green attack” to defend President Donald Trump’s ban on travel and immigration days before she said she misspoke on MSNBC’s Hardball.

During a brief video interview with TMZ on January 29, Conway referenced the event that did not happen.  

“The fact is that it was President Obama and the Congress who identified these seven countries so President Trump is just following on,” Conway says in the video. “President Obama suspended the Iraq refugee program for six months in 2011 and no one certainly covered—I think nobody noticed.

“He did that because, I assume, there were two Iraqis who came here, got radicalized, joined ISIS, and then were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green attack on our brave soldiers.”

The Daily Beast has asked Conway and the White House for comment.

Conway was referencing an incident in 2011 during which two Iraqi nationals, living in Bowling Green, were indicted for having ties to improvised explosive device attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq. According to a 2013 release by the Department of Justice, Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan “admitted using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) against U.S. soldiers in Iraq” and “attempted to send weapons and money to al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) for the purpose of killing U.S. soldiers.”

The same day she spoke to TMZ, Conway told Cosmopolitan about the fictitious “massacre.”   Just days later, on February 2, Conway discussed the “massacre” again during an interview on MSNBC with Chris Matthews.

Conway later acknowledged that she misspoke after the MSNBC interview and meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists.” She also told Cosmopolitan in response to their story: "Frankly they were terrorists in Bowling Green but their massacre took place in Iraq. At least this got clear-thinking people to focus on what did happen in Bowling Green.”

Video at the link.