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Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Friday morning that “honest mistakes abound” on both sides of the reportorial microphone as she sought to explain what she meant when she seemingly made up terrorist attack in a Thursday night interview.

Conway drew a wave of criticism beginning with an interview that aired on MSNBC’s “Hardball” Thursday night, where she made reference to “the Bowling Green massacre” that was masterminded by two Iraqis. She said “most people” didn’t know about the attack “because it didn’t get covered.”

But the lack of coverage of the “Bowling Green massacre,” could more accurately be chalked up to the fact that no such event ever happened. There has never been a terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

The counselor to the president explained on Twitter Friday morning that she had misspoken and was instead referring to the 2011 discovery of two Al Qaeda terrorists who had moved to Bowling Green as refugees. The pair admitted in court that they had attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq and one of their fingerprints was found in 2005 on a device attached to an improvised explosive device.

“On @hardball @NBCNews @MSNBC I meant to say ‘Bowling Green terrorists’ as reported here,” Conway wrote on Twitter, adding a link to a 2013 ABC news story about the two terrorists-turned-refugees.

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