Then I can always add the missing letter and say (innocently) “what about this guy here?” and make the sceptics want to drop the issue. Why can’t they be doing this?

And as always, just because they might have a real person to point to after all, it doesn’t excuse them for LYING! So what if they end up having the testimony of a LIAR!? It won’t do any good for the real problem with AP, which is that they are FRAUDS! We only question the existence of this possible police officer because we already know that AP has LIED BEFORE!!! If anyone should be “eating crow” this year is should be the MSM, as represented by the AP.

Put differently JUST BECAUSE A THEIF HAS AN ALIBI ONCE IT DOESN’T MAKE HIM NOT A THEIF!!!

Allah should get those crow recipes, not for himself, but to fix meals for the SMUG ASSHOLES AT AP WHO CAN’T DO THEIR DAMN JOBS!!! Or worse, their job really is to lie to us!

Either way, ‘death to AP’! and,
USA, all the way!

Seriously Drifter, you told us you weren’t going to post here anymore. What gives?

Rick on December 18, 2006 at 12:04 AM

Rick, he’s really a good guy. I disagree with him most of the time but I like having opposing views on board. It makes it interesting and at times feisty.

Besides, I like it when the Drifter is objective, like today, when he gave credit to AP. Also, it’s a good sign when the intelligent opposition visits because they like it. I’m glad our friend is back.

Yesterday “Armed Liberal” at Winds of Change posted a short blurb about queries he had made to friends of his in Iraq:With the help of some friends who have been doing a smidgen of looking, and it appears – appears,……

Why is Editor & Publisher so visibly desperate to validate AP’s burning six story?…

Which is the far greater thing to have concern for ?

That said, who knows if this is the guy.

It’s still not clear if he’s a real cop, or a Sunni acting in a tribal non-official authority. Still, E&P goes beserk over the story, bashing bloggers by citing the maybe-possibly reportage of… another blogger. Newsbusters notes this isn’t proof,….

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention….

-By Warner Todd HustonEditor and Publisher seems hardly able to hold back their excitement over the possibility that someone has found proof of the existence of the mysterious “Captain Jamil Hussein” who the Associated Press claimed as a source for…..

Oh, and don’t worry — I’m not going to rewrite or delete the tag about us possibly having to eat crow. When I’m wrong, I don’t try to defraud my readers by hiding the evidence.

Well said Allah; and even those of us who don’t always agree with you very much appreciate it.

ARMED LIBERAL reports: With the help of some friends who have been doing a smidgen of looking, and it appears – appears, but is not certain – that there is in fact a Jamail Hussein in the Yarmouk police station……

Kudo’s to Allah and Hot Air for so visibly posting a correction. This is FAR MORE than you will EVER get from the MSM. Thanks to Allah, Michelle, and the Hot Air team for making this a site where people really are informed.

thedecider on December 18, 2006 at 12:46 AM

“thedecider,”

That makes sense.

I think I just take it for granted that Michelle Malkin walks higher ground than many of the shrill, irrational peers walk, so it is common for Michelle to actually tell the truth, no matter which way it points.

Since Allah refers to her as “the boss,” it appears that Allah would be of like mind and also tell the truth without reservation.

That is what I expect from true conservative persons.

They have once again demonstrated their honesty and integrity.

William

Need I remind everyone that Borat was COMPLETELY a manufactured personality. A significant number of people more-or-less “fell all over themselves” in the misguided belief that he was the genuine article.

CyberCipher on December 17, 2006 at 11:27 PM

Just so, CyberCipher.

Consider my comment and CyberCipher’s together, and then consider how many weeks Editor & Publisher (or whoever is making this fine use of their gullibility) has had to “edit and publish” a “witness” with the right name, personality, and story. Remember the old, tart blasphemy? Here it is, reduced to a formula: “X is so useful that, if X didn’t exist, we would have to make him up.” Such transparent frauds become more repugnant as they’re warmed up and served again and again, like moldering leftovers.

Capt. Jamil Hussein located?

Wait a minute…How do we that this guy isn’t just another Elvis impersonator? How do we know they didn’t just manufacture this guy on-the-fly, out of thin air?