January 09, 2007

Jamilgate: AP Using Pseudonym For Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim?

Curt has an interesting development in the Jamil Hussein story. Daffydd has a great support piece sorting it all out.

So we have the unsupported word of AP (which did not publish a transcript of the alleged admission) vs. the unsupported word of a blogger quoting a member of CPATT. Were I a betting man (oh wait, I am), I'd have to give the odds to Flopping Aces in this one. Especially insofar as, to this date, I don't believe AP has even acknowledged that their original story (four mosques "burned," 24 Sunnis slain) was completely wrong. They simply changed it quietly, in the dead of night, without noting the changes... which does not inspire confidence in their confident assertions today.

If true (if!), it would be a pretty darned good explanation of why MOI and MNFI were unable to find Jamil Hussein: because AP lied about his name, giving him a pseudonym then daring anyone to find him.

This is all pending confirmation, bear in mind.

Stay tuned. Here's Bob Owens on this development.

By Good Lt. at 07:42 PM | |