Telephone: MSM Edition

Remember that old children’s game Telephone? Where one kid invents a sentence and whispers it to another kid and so on until the last kid has no clue what was said, and where the kid who sits next to the kid with the really bad speech impediment always either loses or gets sent to the principle’s office? OK, maybe that last part was just me.

Anyhow, we have an incident of this “game” in the international press over the past 24 hours, starting with the first kid, the Washington Post, releasing an “exclusive” story that:

Iran May Have Sent Libya Shells for Chemical Weapons

The story describes an investigation that long ago (how long? We don’t know) Libya bought some shells that they (Libya) later filled with “mustard agent” which is like mustard gas but scarier sounding. And they might’ve bought those shells (though not the chemicals) from Iran, which is surprising since the Iranian government never much seemed to care for Gadhafi. It’s a Washington Post exclusive so subsequent stories largely rely on it for information… but not headlines (here’s where the fun starts).

Iran May Have Given Libya Artillery Shells

Report: Iran Supplied Qaddafi with Shells for Chemical Weapons

Iran may have supplied Qaddafi’s regime with chemical weapons

Chemical Weapons Found in Libya May Have Come from Iran

And last but certainly not least, our globetrotting Telephone trek comes to rest in good ol’ Australia, at the Herald Sun.

Iran may have sent Libya chemical weapons
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