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Today the Strategy Page....
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   ....[1]sharply criticized the AP, accusing them of "fabricating
   events".

     The Associated Press has again put out an Iraq story detailing
     events that did not happen. This time, it involves an airstrike
     that, " killed a family of four during a firefight." However,
     according to the press desk of Multi-National Forces-Iraq, no air
     strike happened during that firefight, and MNF-I also reported that
     which six insurgents were killed by American troops in Baghdad on
     January 1. This is the second time in roughly six weeks that the AP
     has been caught fabricating events.
     In November, the AP's report of six people being burned by in an
     attack on a mosque, cited a Captain Jemil Hussein of the Iraqi
     police. This report was challenged by Central Command and the Iraqi
     Ministry of the Interior, who pointed out that they had no record
     of a Jemil Hussein in their initial searches. The AP has stood by
     the story, yet this questionable Iraqi police official has not been
     quoted once since the story was questioned â despite being used in
     dozens of stories prior to the controversy. After several weeks of
     investigating, several blogs, including Flopping Aces, found very
     little evidence that Captain Hussein existed â until the AP
     reported that an arrest warrant was issued by the Ministry of the
     Interior for Hussein, whose phone has conveniently been turned off.

   If there is anyone left at the AP who gives a hoot, they need to sit
   up and take notice. This problem will not go away by stonewalling it.

References

   1. http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20070105.aspx