More on the AP’s Fake “News”
The Associated Press is nothing more than a propoganda tool at this point. Mark Tapscott discusses this today:
You probably have heard of the AP story that started it – a horrifying dispatch from Iraq the day after Thanksgiving claiming that six Sunnis had been doused with kerosene as they left their mosque following Friday prayers and burned alive by Shiite-aligned militiamen.
The story, which was quickly picked up by virtually every major news organization in the world, also claimed that “the Shiite-dominated police and Iraqi military” stood by doing nothing as the six people were gruesomely murdered. The story was sourced to “police Captain Jamil Hussein.”
The problem is there appears to be no such person as Captain Jamil Hussein, at least not who is employed by the Iraqi police. The U.S. military says Hussein doesn’t exist and has demanded that AP issue a correction. The Iraqi government says no such person is on its police payroll.
Despite the continued idiotic commentary of some here, there are no credible witnesses to this alleged incident. None. Zero. Here is how the New York Times’ Ed Wong, in Baghdad described the situation:
We reached several people who told us about the mosque attacks, but said they had heard nothing of Sunni worshippers being burned alive. Any big news event travels quickly by word of mouth through Baghdad, aided by the enormous proliferation of cell phones here. Such an incident would have been so abominable that a great many of the residents in Hurriya, as well as in other Sunni Arab districts, would have been in an uproar over it.
As noted yesterday, the AP is simply making up war crimes. Out of thin air.
Also on the topic, “The Military and The Media, The divide grows“
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