NBC/White House story about al-Qaqaa crumbles

And to think it all looked so simple in the eyes of the White House just a day ago. Well the real story is now out and even the NBC journalist that was on site has clarified the story. Isn't it fitting that the BBC new chief is blasting the US media for dishing out star-spangled news stories that "did not perform the role the public expects of them." (OK, now even NBC who started the story and CNN who ran with it are backing down but why was the initial report so unbalanced?) The reality now appears to be that al Qaqaa is a massive location with around a hundred buildings and the troops passed through quickly without a search for weapons. They were charging towards Baghdad and had no orders to perform a detailed weapons search nor were they ordered to secure the location.