[Dean's World] Dave Price: The Incredible Vanishing Jamil

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Posted by Dave Price:
The Incredible Vanishing Jamil
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1164918438.shtml


   OK, I was going to leave this to other blogs, but Aziz's denial has me
   fired up now.
   [1]Michelle has a nice round-up of observations on the many, many
   unresolved problems with the AP's story.
   As we [2]said to Glenn Greenwald a while ago: if the guy is real, it
   would be very easy to answer all the critics by simply producing him.
   The AP has issued [3]yet another response that basically amounts to
   "We're the AP and we say it's true, therefore it must be true." They
   still reference no proof anything happened other than a single molotov
   thrown in a mosque, damaging a rug. I'm sure it was a very nice rug
   and will be sorely missed by worshipper's feet, but it's not the
   equivalent of four firebombed mosques and six Sunnis burned alive
   while Iraqi police/Army stood by and watched. There are no photos of
   anything but one burned mosque and some graffiti (which, laughably,
   the AP cites as evidence), and of the two witnesses on the record one
   was imaginary and the other disavowed the story. Some residents
   actually deny anything happened. Moreover, these is no wailing funeral
   procession of Sunnis, no charred bodies... hell, they can't even find
   a burned spot in the middle of the road.
   Again, usually only the tip of the iceberg is [4]visible. How [5]many
   media-promulgated [6]propaganda pieces like this are going
   uninvestigated? It's [7]frightening.
   I'm sure I don't need to point out the recruiting potential that false
   reports of atrocities like this generate for insurgents. If the press
   cared about freedom (or, heaven forbid, showed some patriotism in a
   time of war), they'd be ignoring enemy propaganda and instead of
   wasting our soldier's time making them do the press' job for them this
   morning's MOI press briefing would have produced a "pro-victory"
   headline:

     The third subject is, this week the strikes we made against the
     al-Qaeda terrorist organization in Baghdad were many and very
     strong in Baghdad. Before my arrival to this press conference, I
     was informed that one of the three who were just captured or
     detained is Mazer Al-Jubouri, aka the Baghdad Sniper, and his
     group. He admitted many things that are very important and very
     dangerous and our forces used this information about his network
     and conducted raids in the past 24 hours and detained 30
     terrorists.

   Think we'll see that story at the top of the headlines, like the
   "burning Sunnis" story? Or [8]this? Or [9]this? (Hey, if you do think
   so, send me an email. I've got a great deal for you involving a bridge
   in New York...)

References

   1. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006452.htm
   2. http://patterico.com/2006/07/27/4900/annotated-wuzzadem-the-facts-behind-the-greenwald-sock-puppetry/
   3. http://floppingaces2.blogspot.com/2006/11/getting-news-from-enemy-update-iv.html
   4. http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/11/27/getting-the-news-from-the-enemy-update-ii/
   5. http://patterico.com/2006/11/24/5419/is-the-la-times-repeating-enemy-propaganda-or-is-there-another-reason-the-paper-is-getting-basic-facts-wrong-and-failing-to-report-the-militarys-side/
   6. http://digg.com/politics/Fake_but_accurate_Reuters_Doctoring_Photos_from_Beirut
   7. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260
   8. http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7648&Itemid=21
   9. http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7630&Itemid=21