NEW YORK — NBC News’ Justin Balding, a producer who traveled with Brian Williams on the March 2003 trip at the center of a controversy engulfing the “Nightly News” anchor, is refuting claims that he had also described being in an aircraft in Iraq that was hit by rocket-propelled grenade fire.
“With regard to a story posted online about me yesterday, I would like to state categorically that I have never been in a chopper that was hit by an RPG — and I have never made any such claim,” Balding said in a Friday night email to The Huffington Post.
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NBC News is currently investigating Williams’ Iraq and Katrina claims, and the anchor announced Saturday he was taking temporary leave from the newscast.
