[Dean's World] Dave Price: Jamil Possibly Located; AP Credibility Still At Large

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Posted by Dave Price:
Jamil Possibly Located; AP Credibility Still At Large
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1166405557.shtml


   Armed Liberal [1]may have found a similarly-named Iraqi police captain
   in the same area. [2]Allahpundit is talking Corvus appetizers, but
   more than anything this reminds me of the moment during RatherGate
   when they found the elderly secretary who said she thought the
   National Guard memos were real; the AP will claim vindication despite
   the fact this does not address the many remaining problems with this
   story. Letâs review those problems:
   4 mosques burned, or one? The AP seems to have conceded this one.
   Six immolated Sunnis, or none? Theyâre still fighting this point, but
   the non-reaction from the Iraqi Sunni community pretty much says it
   all. The funerals would have been a huge rallying point for Sunni
   extremists and would have made the news in their own right.
   Jamil Hussein: Did he exist and give an honest, accurate account, did
   he exist and gave a dishonest or inaccurate account (or was
   mis-attributed), or did he just not exist? Merely ruling out the last
   one doesn't make the story accurate, and it's worth noting that the
   first possibility seems to be ruled out by the apparently admitted
   discrepancy in the number of mosques involved.
   So possibly we could be moving from egregiously bad reporting to
   merely very bad reporting. And as Iâve said before, the APâs
   vituperous reaction to the legitimate questions raised really shows
   their lack of commitment to intellectual honesty in their reporting.
   Which, to be honest, bothers me a lot. When it comes to being neutral
   between the U.S. perspective and that of brutal dictators and
   terrorists, they wax poetic about the need for objectivity. When it
   comes to questions about their own reporting, itâs us versus them to
   the death.

References

   1. http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/009292.php
   2. http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/16/breaking-capt-jamil-hussein-located/