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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Friday accused CNN of showing an "enemy propaganda film" of a U.S. soldier shot by a sniper in Iraq.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- signed by two other Republican members of Congress from California -- asking that CNN reporters be barred from being embedded with U.S. troops.
"I think Americans like to think we're all in this together," Hunter said. "The average American Marine or soldier has concluded after seeing that film that CNN is not on their side."
CNN producer Brian Doss said that Michael Ware, a Baghdad correspondent, received the tape indirectly from a spokesman for the Islamic Army, and the network decided to air it after extensive internal debate.
"Whether or not you agree with us in this case, our goal, as always, is to present the unvarnished truth as best we can," he said on the CNN Web site.
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