This is a tricky area for mainstream news outlets. American reporters seem to be terrified of the prospect of actually writing about Iraq FROM Iraq ... so they do what they can with local (Arab) reporters. But a reporter with an agenda is useless to those of us who simply want the unspun story. The Associated Press has used a local "stringer" by the name of Jamil Hussein as a source for several stories, relatively unnoticed before now. But he's the center of a firestorm now that sensational allegations of Shiite revenge attacks have surfaced, with Mr Hussein named as a local police captain and one of the sources. He may have remained unnoticed but fore other details of the story, regarding mosques that had been attacked. Unfortunately for the AP, the US military says none of the mosques show ANY damage except for one - of four - that has the almost negligible damage resulting from a molotov cocktail.
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Michelle Malkin have been following the story at least as closely as anyone, and there are many more fascinating details to the story....From Yankee...
Police Captain Jamil Hussein was then silent for 28 days until November 24, when he was cited five times describing the now familiar series of claims that Shia militamen immolated six Sunni men. Those claims have been disputed by the Iraqi Police, Interior Ministry, Iraqi Army, and even the responding unit of the Baghdad Fire Department which put out the one minor mosque fire that actually existed of the four that the Associated Press claimed were attacked.
....And from MM....
Jamilgate isn't just about Jamil Hussein, I hope Mr. Jordan understands. Hussein is just one piece of the six burning Sunnis puzzle. Allah raises questions about the hospital morgue the AP identified as the one where the bodies were taken and the unidentified workers who appeared and disappeared from AP's accounts. Maybe we'll learn more about this, too.
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