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June 30, 2007

Reuters Retracts Iraqi Beheading Story



A couple of days ago I linked to Bob Owens' post about a story the AP ran about 20 decapitated bodies (along with heads) found in Iraq. Bob was questioning whether or not the story was genuine since the sourcing was sketchy, at best. Reuters also ran the story which... [Full Story]

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January 22, 2007

Checking the Facts in Iraq



Michelle Malkin has an informative report about what she found in Iraq regarding the AP's "Burning Six" story that includes pictures of the mosques that were supposedly destroyed.Make no mistake. Hurriya is a Shiite militia-infested neighborhood where Sunnis have suffered horrible treatment. We accompanied a civil affairs patrol to a... [Full Story]

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January 13, 2007

Jamil Hussein -- A Primer



Curt at Flopping Aces has put together a primer of sorts for those following the Jamil Hussein story. He goes back to the beginning to remind readers what the original issues were with the mysterious AP source and then goes through the various developments in the story.... [Full Story]

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January 4, 2007

Jamil Hussein To Be Arrested?



Jamil Hussein just might exist, after all, but it appears that he is being arrested. I wonder if we will now learn just how many of those stories he fed the AP were real. I think we still have a long way to go before we know the full story... [Full Story]

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January 2, 2007

Is Jamil Hussein Busy Celebrating Christmas?



I have not been following the Jamil Hussein case as closely as I should have so if I'm repeating someone, my apologies, but there is one point notably absent from the Jamil Hussein scandal coverage.... Why did AP stop using him as a source? If you look at the infamous... [Full Story]

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Questions Will Remain Until the AP Adequately Addresses This



I have been critical of Eason Jordan in the past and will continue to be, but I have to agree with his assessment of the AP's reaction to the Jamil Hussein story.If an Iraqi police captain by the name of Jamil Hussein exists, there is no convincing evidence of it... [Full Story]

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December 18, 2006

AP Sources



What do you suppose would be worse? If the AP source for the "burning six" story, Captain Jamil Hussein, turned out to be imaginary, or if he turned out to be a terrorist? Bob Owens discusses the possibility.If it turns out that this Hussein is the man claiming to be... [Full Story]

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March 4, 2006

Associated Press Admits Error In Katrina Video Story



No doubt based the debunking of the Associated Press's bald-faced lies in their Hurricane Katrina video briefings story by the blogosphere (see our contributions at the end of this piece), the AP has issued the following "clarification" about their original report [Via Drudge].Clarification: Katrina-Video story ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) _... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

February 9, 2006

Disingenuous Headline Of The Day - PlameGate Edition



Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd LeaksGo ahead and read the mess of an article (currently the lead AP story) about these "OK'd" leaks. With a headline like that you'd expect that there would be some relation to the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. You'd be wrong... Given Judith Miller's very... [Full Story]

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December 21, 2005

AP Watch - Spot The Error Edition



Read this short AP article: Creator of World Wide Web starts blog Notice any errors? [Spoilers below...]... [Full Story]

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