January 12, 2007
First - Daffydd ab Hugh (responding to Patterico) posted a logical and helpful exploration presenting three scenarios to factor into your Jamilgate diet. Daffydd is betting on #2:
What are the possible cases?The other is another excellent roundup of JamilXgate from Karl at Protein Wisdom. He thinks it boils down to this:1. There really is a Police Captain Jamil Hussein -- under that name -- working at the Khadra police station in Iraq, and he was AP's source, just as they claimed;
2. There is a human working at the Khadra station who was AP's source, but his name is not Jamil Hussein, and he may or may not be a police captain;
3. Or else AP had no source at all at Khadra, and who cares whether someone named Jamil incidentally works at there?
the current data suggests there was no Capt. Jamil Hussein, as the AP claimed. There apparently was a police captain operating under an undisclosed pseudonym with undisclosed—and perhaps multiple—motives for doing so. He provided at least two unsubstantiated stories to the AP, and at least 40 that were unreported by other news sources. He provided reports of incidents outside the jurisdictions of the two stations where “Jamil X†apparently worked, which should raise questions of the quality of Jamil X’s knowledge of those alleged incidents as well. At worst, the bloggers who questioned the physical existence of such a person were “fake, but accurateâ€â€”which is the best that can be said of the AP and Jamil X himself.Stay tuned.
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AP has manuvered this whole issue to the point that Jamil is the story and not the whole cloth fabrications they attributed to him. Even as we prove there is no Jamil and AP admits there is no Jamil we're still calling it Jamilgate and talking about a nonexistant person. The story is that AP made up news stories, distributed them worldwide as fact that surely caused Sunni and Shi'a to kill each other, and probably not just a few American soldiers.
Posted by: Buzzy at January 12, 2007 11:20 PM (CXz7T)
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