Among the stories former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley lied about were several concerning Israel. An investigation by the newspaper, which announced recently that it had discovered that the veteran correspondent had fabricated large parts of his work, found that Kelley’s eyewitness account of a suicide bombing in Israel was false.
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