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12:37 May 9th, 2007

Shooting deserters?

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: Uncategorized

Cubans see firing squad for army deserters

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cubans think their country’s communist authorities will execute two military deserters who shot dead an officer and a soldier in an attempt to hijack a plane to the United States.

This story concerns two men who committed murder during a hijack attempt. However, your headline implies that Castro shoots deserters. The article itself does not have this flaw.

Mike B.

This wasn’t a great headline, since desertion was apparently the least of their sins.  We fixed it in an update: GBU Editor

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