So Just Who is Capt. Jamil Hussein? (1 Viewer)

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November 30, 2006, 10:35 am
So Just Who Is Capt. Jamil Hussein?

By Tom Zeller Jr.

On Saturday, the press arm of the U.S.-led multi-national force in Iraq, began crying foul, issuing a press release saying it had issues with the number of mosques that the media were reporting had been burned and, in the last paragraph, this:

The patrol was also unable to confirm media reports that six Sunni civilians were allegedly dragged out of Friday prayers and burned to death. Neither Baghdad police nor Coalition forces have reports of any such incident.
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By Monday, Navy Lt. Michael B. Dean, a military spokesman for the joint operations in Iraq, had sent an e-mail to the Associated Press (which somehow made it onto the conservative blog circuit in a flash), essentially saying Mr. Hussein was neither a police officer nor an employee of the Iraq interior ministry (MOI), and therefore, not an approved source:

We can tell you definitively that the primary source of this story, police Capt. Jamil Hussein, is not a Baghdad police officer or an MOI employee. We verified this fact with the MOI through the Coalition Police Assistance Training Team. …
Unless you have a credible source to corroborate the story of the people being burned alive, we respectfully request that AP issue a retraction, or a correction at a minimum, acknowledging that the source named in the story is not who he claimed he was.
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Basically this Mr. Hussien does not exist, he is a propagnda tool of the Iraq insurgency, and one which has been sourced by the AP on numerous occassions involving some of the most violent attacks in Iraq, as the AP freely admits:

“Mr. Hussein has been a regular source of police information for two years and had been visited by the AP reporter in his office at the police station on several occasions.”

 

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CENTCOM and MOI confirmation:

From CPATT PAO:

BG Abdul-Kareem, the Ministry of Interior Spokesman, went on the record today stating that Capt. Jamil Hussein is not a police officer. He explained the coordinations among MOI, the Ministry of Health and the
Ministry of Defense in attempting to track down these bodies and their joint conclusion was that this was unsubstantiated rumor.

He went on to name several other false sources that have been used recently and appealed to the media to document their news before reporting. He went into some detail about the impact of the press carrying propaganda for the enemies of Iraq and thanked “the friends” who have brought this to their attention.

AP did attend the press conference.
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LT Dean
Michael B. Dean
Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
MNC-I Joint Operations Center
Public Affairs Officer

 

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Basically this Mr. Hussien does not exist, he is a propagnda tool of the Iraq insurgency, and one which has been sourced by the AP on numerous occassions involving some of the most violent attacks in Iraq, as the AP freely admits:

“Mr. Hussein has been a regular source of police information for two years and had been visited by the AP reporter in his office at the police station on several occasions.”

How convienent....... Don't psychologists say that its perfectly healthy to have imaginary friends??