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Clinton admits 'error'.


WASHINGTON: Democrat Hillary Clinton admitted yesterday she was wrong when she claimed that a hail of sniper See sniping software.  fire ambushed her arrival on a 1990s trip to Bosnia, but said the controversy would not harm her credibility. "This has been a very long campaign," a laughing Clinton said in an interview with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Pittsburgh” redirects here. For the region, see Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area.

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 radio station KDKA.

Acknowledging "I did misspeak mis·speak  
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To speak or pronounce incorrectly: The lead actor misspoke his lines.

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 the other day" about the Bosnia trip, the presidential contender said: "Occasionally, I am a human being like everybody else.

"I have written about it in my book (Living History) and I've talked about it on many other occasions and last week, you know, for the first time in 12 or so years I misspoke."

The campaign of rival Democrat Barack Obama has jumped on the controversy to buttress buttress, mass of masonry built against a wall to strengthen it. It is especially necessary when a vault or an arch places a heavy load or thrust on one part of a wall.  its claim that the New York New York, state, United States
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 senator dishonestly exaggerates her resume to argue that she is ready to be commander-in-chief.

Following Clinton's interview on KDKA, Obama aides pointed to at least four other occasions stretching back to December when she had recalled coming under fire when she landed at Bosnia's Tuzla airbase
For the Swedish musician who is known as "Airbase," see Jezper Söderlund.
An airbase, sometimes referred to as a military airport or airfield, provides basing and support of military aircraft.
 on March 25, 1996.

Television footage from the trip, on which Clinton was joined by her daughter Chelsea, singer Sheryl Crow and comedian Sinbad, contradicted her own account to have scurried across the tarmac under gunfire.

The video reports showed Clinton's party being greeted by smiling officials on the tarmac at Tuzla as it disembarked, and listening as an eight-year-old Bosnian girl read out a poem.

"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down heads down - [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.  to get into the vehicles to get to our base," she said in a speech last week.

Obama's camp said that a slip of the tongue was improbable since those remarks were not spontaneous.

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