A McDonalds in Anbar province, a Pizza Hut just outside the "Green Zone", a KFC in Fallujah.
That last one was actually reported on'Fox and Friends' the other morning:
From TPM Muckraker
The story seems to have popped up two weeks ago in a report by a Marine public information officer. Cpl. Chris T. Mann is a PIO for Regimental Combat Team 1, which is part of the 1st Marine Division. The following photo accompanied his post on the regimental website:
And the footage that Fox used can be traced back to a 5-minute clip at LiveLeak.com, which shows scenes of chicken frying amid assorted KFC-branded signage. Another marine, Public Affairs Chief Josh Higgins of Regimental Combat Team 1, referenced the same "KFC" in a recent article for the Greenville, TN, newspaper.
In an email Saturday, 1st Lt Brian Block, a media officer for Multi National Force - West, told me that Cpl. Mann would be out on a mission for the next couple of days. We've also called the number of the faux KFC itself, but no one at the restaurant seems to speak English.
All we know for sure right now is that the original Fox report -- that a KFC franchise opened in Fallujah -- was bogus.
Considering that KFC is a "publicly traded company", this shouldn't have been that difficult to confirm. If in fact this was a real KFC opening up, this would have been a huge story. But, then again, Fox rarely lets fact get in the way.
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