On the El Salvador Civil War , he criticized reporter Raymond Bonner with particular regard to his reporting in the '' New York Times '' of the El Mozote massacre . He devoted an entire edition of the '' AIM Report '' to Bonner , reporting that " Mr. Bonner had been worth a division to the communists in Central America . " In 1992 , as part of the peace settlement established by the Chapultepec Peace Accords , the United Nations-sanctioned Commission on the Truth for El Salvador investigating human rights abuses committed during the war supervised the exhumations of the El Mozote remains by an Argentinian team of forensic specialists . The Truth Commission stated in its final report : " There is full proof that on 11 December 1981 , in the village of El Mozote , units of the Atlacatl Battalion deliberately and systematically killed a group of more than 200 men , women and children , constituting the entire civilian population that they had found there the previous day and had since been holding prisoner . " During the Persian Gulf War in 1991 , " he accused CNN and its reporter Peter Arnett of airing ' Saddam Hussein 's version of the truth . There 's no way his reporting is helping America win this war . ' " Arnett 's reports on civilian damage caused by the bombing were not received well by the coalition war administration , who by their constant use of terms like " smart bombs " and " surgical precision " had tried to project an image that civilian casualties would be at a minimum
El Mozote massacre
El Mozote massacre
Reed Irvine