Daily Mail caught RECYCLING THE NEWS on US missiles hitting IRAN!

Today, Dec 22 2011, The Daily Mail reported that US and British missiles had hit a village in Iran; wounding three. People reported to us that the story sounded eerily familiar and sure enough - it wasn't news at all!

USA Today reported almost the same exact story in 2003 - when the war was only two days old. The USA Today story, dated Mar 22 2003 came from reports out of IRNA and include a very specific account of three persons being wounded. Today's report from the Daily Mail gives the same number and describes very similar event dynamics.

From the USA Today story of 2003:

At least three people were injured, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency.

Fro the Daily Mail story dated Dec 22, 2011:

IRNA had said yesterday that three people were injured when an earlier US missile struck an oil depot in Abadan.

So it appears that either the Daily Mail has some incredibly gullible reporters over there who are simply taking dictation from Iran without checking the facts or they have been caught recycling the news to get hits to their Google ads. Either way their credibility has taken a huge hit with this one.