Every morning I do the rounds of our Iraqi blog friends to see what they think is happening over there. The picture can be heartening and troublesome, depending on who I'm reading and what happened to them.

So this morning Salaam led me over to this harrowing entry by Zayed, whom we also blogroll. Now, any time Salaam points out a "must read" from a fellow Iraqi blogger, it's never about our troops doing something good, so I immediately started groaning as I read the article.

However, the longer I read it, the more it sounded like an urban legend. The only thing that kept me from completely dismissing it was Zayed's relation to the author (seems he's a cousin). But the whole thing is riddled with logic errors.

The readers of Instapundit agree, and he provides a very nice sampling of people who can tell exactly why and how.

Personally, I think an investigation should be opened up, but, with due respect to Zayed, I don't think the results will be what his cousin's family are hoping for.