Summary
The otherwise well-reported article "Soldier of Saddam a beacon for new Iraq" (World, Jan. 4) was marred by one untrue statement. It is a myth that the military "rushed to strengthen armor on their own vehicles after a soldier raised the issue with visiting Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in December 2004, sparking a public outcry in the United States."
At the time of Mr. Rumsfeld's troop talk to Kuwait, about 15,000 of the 19,000 Humvees in the Central Command's theater of operations (which included Afghanistan and Iraq) had already been fitted with add-on armor.See the full content of this document
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Armoring Humvees
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