Kellyanne Conway, who was widely mocked for citing a fictitious “Bowling Green massacre” last week, used the same description in another interview a few days earlier, according to a report.
President Trump’s top adviser claimed on MSNBC on Feb. 2 that the “massacre” prompted President Obama to suspend the Iraqi refugee program in the US for six months in 2011.
Conway, who defended Trump’s executive order banning people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from coming to the US for 90 days, later apologized for the verbal gaffe, calling it an honest mistake.”
“On @hardball @NBCNews @MSNBC I meant to say ‘Bowling Green terrorists’ as reported here,” Conway tweeted Friday, referring to two Iraqi refugees who were arrested in Bowing Green, Ky, on terrorism-related charges.
But Cosmopolitan magazine reported Monday that she also invoked the fake massacre during a Jan. 29 interview.
“He did that for exactly the same reasons,” Conway told Cosmo. “He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills and come back here and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers’ lives away.”
An FBI press release disputed some of what Conway told the mag about Mohanad Shareef Hammadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan, who entered the US in 2009.
The men “admitted using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) against US soldiers in Iraq” and “attempted to send weapons and money to al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) for the purpose of killing US soldiers,” according to the release.
Both pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges, but the press release did not mention anything about the men returning to the Middle East for training.
“It was a plot to massacre and they were Bowling Green terrorists. That’s what I should have said. I clarified,” Conway told Cosmo. “Those were evil men who bragged about attacking American soldiers.”
In a separate message, she added: “Frankly they were terrorists in Bowling Green but their massacre took place in Iraq.”
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