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NBC's Brian Williams Drops Claims To Have Been Personally Beheaded by Al Qaeda
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NBC's Brian Williams Drops Claims To Have Been Personally Beheaded by Al Qaeda

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Oct 05, 2022
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NEW YORK — NBC news anchor Brian Williams has publicly dropped his claim that he was personally beheaded by al Qaeda in Iraq, saying he had misremembered the event.

Williams — known as 'The Most Trusted NBC Nightly News Anchor in America' — has admitted he "was never captured by al Qaeda in Iraq in May 2004, nor murdered by AQI leader Abu Musab al Zarqaw…

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