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Did the AP make up their source and/or their news? Did the Pentagon cover up an incident of six men being doused with kerosene and set ablaze? Why won't the AP name their investigators and witnesses? Who the heck are we supposed to believe here?
We covered the start of this story in a previous thread.
But now that the esteemed New York Times has checked in on the subject and the Associated Press and the Pentagon are slinging mud and calling eachother liars, I felt a separate thread might just be appropriate.
THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE LEDE BLOG
November 30, 2006, 10:35 am
So Just Who Is Capt. Jamil Hussein?
By Tom Zeller Jr.
EXERPT:
At the center of things is one police Capt. Jamil Hussein. Mr. Hussein was the primary source in an Associated Press wire-dispatch last Friday reporting that Shiite militiamen had “grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene.”
The report was picked up and widely repeated at various news outlets throughout the weekend.
EXERPT:
Navy Lt. Michael B. Dean, a military spokesman for the joint operations in Iraq
"Unless you have a credible source to corroborate the story of the people being burned alive, we respectfully request that AP issue a retraction, or a correction at a minimum, acknowledging that the source named in the story is not who he claimed he was."
EXERPT:
AP’s international editor, John Daniszewski
"The attempt to question the existence of the known police officer who spoke to the AP is frankly ludicrous and hints at a certain level of desperation to dispute or suppress the facts of the incident in question."
READ MORE - Oh, check out the 94 comments at the end of the story!
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/so-just-who-is-capt-jamil-hussein/
We covered the start of this story in a previous thread.
But now that the esteemed New York Times has checked in on the subject and the Associated Press and the Pentagon are slinging mud and calling eachother liars, I felt a separate thread might just be appropriate.
THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE LEDE BLOG
November 30, 2006, 10:35 am
So Just Who Is Capt. Jamil Hussein?
By Tom Zeller Jr.
EXERPT:
At the center of things is one police Capt. Jamil Hussein. Mr. Hussein was the primary source in an Associated Press wire-dispatch last Friday reporting that Shiite militiamen had “grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene.”
The report was picked up and widely repeated at various news outlets throughout the weekend.
EXERPT:
Navy Lt. Michael B. Dean, a military spokesman for the joint operations in Iraq
"Unless you have a credible source to corroborate the story of the people being burned alive, we respectfully request that AP issue a retraction, or a correction at a minimum, acknowledging that the source named in the story is not who he claimed he was."
EXERPT:
AP’s international editor, John Daniszewski
"The attempt to question the existence of the known police officer who spoke to the AP is frankly ludicrous and hints at a certain level of desperation to dispute or suppress the facts of the incident in question."
READ MORE - Oh, check out the 94 comments at the end of the story!
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/so-just-who-is-capt-jamil-hussein/
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