I need help verifying a story that came out of the early days of the Iraqi invasion in 2003, I believe involving Ted Koppel. I heard the story here or elsewhere but it might have been, at that point, hearsay.
The story has Koppel (or other famous, wealthy, peerless anchorman) in his embed gear trying to explain why the Iraqi army had not blown the bridges upon their retreat. His explanation was that precision-guided American bombs were able to clip the explosive wires before they could detonate, a patently ridiculous volume of hogwash.
Does anybody remember this? Will a kind soul point me in the right direction to a factual account of this story? Thanks.