From Sadly, No!: "Decency?" Surely, You Jest!

[Ms. Clio]

"Decency?" Surely, You Jest!

By Brad R. on Uncategorized

Hey, remember Jamil Hussein? You know, the Iraqi police officer who told the Associated Press about Sunnis being burned to death by Shiites in Iraq? The one whom the wingnutosphere insisted again and again and again and again and again didn’t exist and was just part of an elaborate web of MSM lies to make the situation in Iraq look worse than it was (and really, it wasn’t even bad at all anyway)?

Well, it turns out that he’s real. And because of the wingnutosphere’s insane braying, he’s now been arrested for the high crime of talking to reporters (via Nitpicker):

The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media.

Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported by The Associated Press.

The captain, whose full name is Jamil Gholaiem Hussein, was one of the sources for an AP story in late November about the burning and shooting of six people during a sectarian attack at a Sunni mosque.

The U.S. military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry raised the doubts about Hussein in questioning the veracity of the AP’s initial reporting on the incident, and the Iraqi ministry suggested that many news organization were giving a distorted, exaggerated picture of the conflict in Iraq. Some Internet bloggers spread and amplified these doubts, accusing the AP of having made up Hussein’s identity in order to disseminate false news about the war.

Not much more, but well worth the read here: http://sadlyno.com/archives/4735.html

See also the Editor&Publisher story: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003528028

[Kiouni]

1. off subject

why does your dog have a garage door opener in that pic?

[Ms. Clio]

2. actually it's my car key

If I don't have pockets, I clip my keys on her lead when we go for walks.