[antimedia] antimedia: Is the AP admitting that Jamil Hussein....

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Is the AP admitting that Jamil Hussein....
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   ....[1]doesn't exist after all? It's clear from Bob's reporting that
   Jamil Hussein is a pseudonym for someone with another name. What's not
   clear is who the real person behind the pseudonym is.

     In the wake of my January 25 26 letter to the Board of Directors of
     the Associated Press concerning the news organization's inaccurate
     reporting of the November 24 Hurriyah assault by Shia militias on
     Sunni mosques--a letter in which I provided to the Board of
     Directors the real name of AP source "Jamil Hussein"--the official
     Associated Press web site containing all of AP's official responses
     regarding Hurriyah has curiously withdrawn the January 4 article by
     AP reporter Steven R. Hurst claiming that Jamil Hussein is Jamil
     Hussein.
     A screen capture of the AP web page from January 8 containing the
     Hurst article is captured here.
     A screen capture of the AP Web page, minus the Hurst article, as
     captured this morning, is online here.
     Is the Associated Press beginning a walkback of it's Hurriyah
     coverage? If so, quietly attempting to scrub their reporting to
     date is perhaps not the best way to do so.

   Since Bob exposed their deception, AP is blaming "a technical glitch"
   (that affected this one article!) and the page has reappeared.
   The AP's credibility was shattered long ago. Only by coming clean,
   completely clean, can they hope to salvage any part of their
   reputation.

References

   1. http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/213753.php