Brian Williams' Recollection of Israel-Hezbollah War Questioned

NBC newscaster Brian Williams is receiving heightened criticism regarding claims of another war-related event after admitting in a recent interview that he "misremembered" events surrounding the Iraq War.

Williams, host of "NBC Nightly News," is being critiqued by The Washington Post for two different versions of a story he told regarding the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006. As The Washington Post points out, Williams has previously claimed that he was travelling in a helicopter when Katyusha rockets passed "just beneath" the helicopter he was in.

In other versions of the story, Williams said that the rockets were 1,500 feet below him, closer to the ground as opposed to right underneath the helicopter.

NBC is conducting an investigation into two of William's reporting claims, including the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina, after the newscaster admitted to Stars and Stripes that he had "misremembered" a story regarding the Iraq War in 2003.

Williams had claimed that he was travelling in Chinook helicopter in 2003 in Iraq when it was struck by enemy fire. The NBC anchor was forced to clarify his story after others flying in the Chinook helicopters argued that Williams was nowhere near the enemy fire, but rather following far behind in a different helicopter.

Along with issuing an on-air apology, the news anchor recently told Stars and Stripes: "I would not have chosen to make this mistake."

"I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another," Williams added.