Posted on 01/21/2007 9:48:28 AM PST by faq
WELL, the Iraqi Ministry of Interior says disputed Associated Press source Jamil Hussein does exist. But at least one story he told the AP just doesn't check out: The Sunni mosques that as Hussein claimed and AP reported as "destroyed," "torched" and "burned and [blown] up" are all still standing. So the credibility of every AP story relying on Jamil Hussein remains dubious.
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Well, Bryan Preston and I visited the area during our Iraq trip last week. Several mosques did, in fact, come under attack by Mahdi Army forces. But the "destroyed" mosques all still stand. Iraqi and U.S. Army officials say that two of them received no fire damage whatsoever. Another, which we filmed, was abandoned and empty when it was attacked.
WE obtained summary reports and photos filed at the time by Iraqi and U.S. Army troops on the scene. They contain no corroborating evidence of Hussein's claim that "Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near Iraqi soldiers who did not intervene."
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Contrary to Hussein and the AP's account, military reports note that Iraqi Army battalion members were on the scene - pursuing attackers, securing the area, calling the fire department, providing support and an outer cordon.
Capt. Aaron Kaufman of Task Force Justice, which works closely with the Iraqi Army battalion that was on the scene and monitored events as they happened, told us: "It was blown way out of proportion, there was nobody lit on fire."
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Nothing like verifying a story. It seems pretty easy, in this case. Still....it wouldn't bother me if these buildings were destroyed.
"Capt. Aaron Kaufman of Task Force Justice, which works closely with the Iraqi Army battalion that was on the scene and monitored events as they happened, told us: "It was blown way out of proportion, there was nobody lit on fire."
It's obvious the AP is working for the terrorist and need to be treated as terrorist.
Don't hold your breath for a correction from AP anytime soon.
No no- AP reports that Cpt. Jamil Hussein said it so it must be fact (ooops- no jamil hussein exists- not hte one that the AP uses as their 'source' anyways)
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scuse me, I meant to say, that Jamil wasn't in the areas he claiemd to be- so he couldn't have witnessed all the 'attrocities' that he claimed he did. And I'm still not convinced this jamil is the same one the AP cited as their source.
Oh, I won't. The AP has already said that even if the story is wrong it's not on them because they got it from "sources" and they stand by their sources who fed them the story. The AP has never verified a single thing in Iraq except through he said, he said so they are just mouthpieces for the terrorist. There is no reasoning with the AP on accurate reporting so they need to be removed somehow from the theater of operations.
Well, for the same left that chose as their representative a candidate who had "seared" in his memory an event that didn't take place, a witness that wasn't any any events is quite adequate.
Just the opposite is happening, of course. It's getting worse, not better. More and more stories appearing in 2007 have double bylines, with a Muslim reporter getting the "facts" and a westerner sitting safe in some other city writing them up.
Flatten all mosques.
"Don't hold your breath for a correction from AP anytime soon."
Bring back impaling.
Isn't he that Senator from Illinois?
bump
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Jamil schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated.
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Give us any chance, we’ll take it.
Give us any rule, we’ll break it.
We’re gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin’ it our way.
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