Buried in this is the following:

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Separately, police and witnesses said U.S. soldiers shot and killed 11 civilians and wounded five on Sunday night in the Baghdad suburb of Husseiniya. The U.S. military said it had no record of any American military operation in the area.

"We were sitting inside our house when the Americans showed up and started firing at homes. They killed many people and burned some houses," said one of the witnesses, a man with bandages on his head who was being treated at Imam Ali Hospital in the Shiite slum of Sadr City. The police and witnesses spoke with Associated Press Television News on condition of anonymity to protect their own security.

More bull-murtha brought to you by Al-Jazzera, CNN affiliate, both networks comrades in arms with the terrorists.

Thread from yesterday:

< href=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1744742/posts?page=1> Bombshell: Centcom says AP’s Iraqi police source isn’t Iraqi police

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Now to the Blogosphere:

It's A Flopping Aces Scoop
November 27, 2006

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Getting The News From The Enemy, Update

Ok, I broke down and started a new thread for updates. The original one was just getting waaaayyyy too long. If your just coming into this story go here to get all the facts on how a bogus Iraqi Police Officer has been supplying quotes and lies to the AP.

I found this transcript from MSNBC in which they refer to this bogus story as one reason why they have now decided to call the Iraq situation a “civil war”: (via ThinkProgress, a lefty site)

The news from Iraq is becoming grimmer every day. Over the long holiday weekend bombings killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. And six Sunni men were doused with kerosene and burned alive. Shiite muslims are the majority, but Sunnis like Saddam Hussein ruled that country until the war. Now, the battle between Shiites and Sunnis has created a civil war in Iraq. Beginning this morning, MSNBC will refer to the fighting in Iraq as a civil war — a phrase the White House continues to resist. But after careful thought, MSNBC and NBC News decided over the weekend, the terminology is appropriate, as armed militarized factions fight for their own political agendas. We’ll have a lots more on the situation in Iraq and the decision to use the phrase, civil war.

And there you have it. It has begun. The MSM has been using bogus officials to supply chaos to their stories and based on those same stories has decided Iraq is now a official civil war.

Make sense?

UPDATE 1355hrs PST

Another try on the thread from yesterday:

Bombshell: Centcom Says AP’s Iraqi Police Source Isn’t Iraqi Police

This also from yesterday:

Iraq Wants U.N. Security Council Mandate ~ of the multinational force ... for another 12 months."

Many links in the thread.

Thanks, I'd seen that yesterday. Sure haven't heard of or seen any retractions by the MSM. Shameful - they pounce on everything as if it were gospel, especially if makes our soldiers look bad.

Have you seen this?

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A former 1960s radical, Horowitz is well-acquainted with the Leftist mindset. In this book, he strives to explain the modern alliance between left wing progressivists and radical Islamofascists. He argues that this alliance is based on a common desire to destroy Western capitalism. Leftist sympathy with Islamofascist ideas makes no sense from an intellectual point of view, given that countries ruled by radical Islamists are among the most racist, sexist, theocratic states in the world today. However, Leftists have recognized that they can benefit politically from destructive terrorist attacks on the Western world. A West under attack can be made to turn on its leaders in fear and desperation (as they did in Spain after the Madrid train bombings). Only once people reject current government structures can the Left execute its anti-capitalist revolution and build a new reality that mirrors the Leftist view of utopia. The complete and utter idealogical hypocrisy of the Islamofascist-Leftist alliance is distressing, but as Horowitz reminds us, Leftists radicals truly believe the ends justify the means.

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Dumba$$ democrats taking it hook, line, and sinker.

Vote democrat - party of OBL, AQ, Al Aqsa...

Pseudo reporters using bogus cops for bogus human burning stories.

Sounds like a sick tv sit com plot.

Here is more:

It's Official: Media Body Burning Story is Bogus

Pulling in another link outside FR:

Reutersgate 2? Baghdad Burnings Remain Unconfirmed

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Reutersgate 2? Baghdad Burnings Remain Unconfirmed

Posted by Al Brown on November 26, 2006 - 11:18.

Reports of burning mosques, like this one from Reuters remain unconfirmed, and may have been fabricated by Sunni militants.

Also, sensationalized accounts of Sunnis being dragged from prayer and burned alive by rampaging Shiites are unconfirmed, and all appear to come from the same source, police Captain Jamil Hussein, whose entire career appears to be issuing statements about Shia violence against Sunnis. Curt at Flopping Aces has researched Hussein and found a remarkable number of atrocity stories for which he is the source.

Curt also reports that he has received an email from CENTCOM that is very skeptical of the media accounts:

We are checking with the Iraqi Government to verify that Capt. Jamil Hussein is a legitimate Iraqi Government spokesperson. We haven’t heard back yet. Unfortunately, people posing as government officials often do call the media to make statements.

From the Multi-National Force's Iraqi Freedom website:

BAGHDAD — Contrary to recent media reporting that four mosques were burned in Hurriya, an Iraqi Army patrol investigating the area found only one mosque had been burned in the neighborhood...
...An alleged attack on a fourth mosque remains unconfirmed. 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.

This is all uncomfortably reminiscent of the Reutersgate/fauxtography scandal during the Israeli/Hezbollah war, and once again brings into question just how much Western news agencies have compromised their integrity by depending on unvetted local stringers and sources.

If these incidents were embellished, as they now seem to be, they show a frightening level of sophistication about Western media. The stories all broke toward the end of the weekly news cycle so that even if they are eventually corrected, they will have at least the weekend to sink into the American psyche.

Google search of the web on********** Capt. Jamil Hussein

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small dead animals: Capt. Jamil Hussein Gets Around

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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Getting The News From The Enemy

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protein wisdom

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Muqtada al-Sadr News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News

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The Baltimore Reporter

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Wake up America

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Bush - National Guard Service News - Inbox Robot

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From proteinwisdom.com :

Monday, November 27, 2006
Willful Suspension of Disbelief, redux

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From Curt at Flopping Aces comes the news many of us quietly expected: Centcom has confirmed that Capt. Jamil Hussein, the primary source for the recent kerosene mosque murder reports—and for a whole host of reports of Shia massacres recounted by the AP—is neither an employee of Iraq’s Ministry of Interior nor is he a police captain.

In short, the AP has been relying on a bogus source for much of its reporting on Shia violence against Sunnis since at least April.

For those who continue to suggest that the mainstream press has a negligible impact on elections, consider that the majority of Americans who bothered to pay any attention whatsoever to this story will be left with an account of horrific sectarian violence against women and children—and the belief that sectarian strife in Iraq is not only inexorable and savage, but pandemic.

Underlying this reportage, then, is an unseemly subtext: that Arabs in Iraq—and perhaps even Arabs in general—are incapable of working toward a free society, one that, through a series of ratified political documents and elections, has merely pretended to be taking its first tentative steps toward the acceptance of a baby pluralism. Consequently, the blood and treasure spent in Iraq has never been worth the cost, and—our failure now all but imminent thanks to a genetic or systemic flaw in the Arab constitution—we should therefore be looking for a way to retreat with honor. Or perhaps a way to reinstall Saddam Hussein. You know, to stabilize things.

Whether this narrative is the product of willful distortion or merely the laziness that comes with being fed stories that match your preconceptions is, in effect, beside the point—though the former is clearly more despicable, and, should it prove to be the case, has the practical effect of undermining a representative democracy that can only work properly if citizens are being given accurate accountings of events by those purporting to do so.

Leaving aside the elitist and racist underpinnings informing such a subtext, what is important to note here is that the majority of Americans who don’t follow politics closely will remember nothing but the ghastly imagery and the message it is intended to further: that we are dealing with a society of savages who, given the opportunity for freedom, will reject it in favor of bloodsport and retribution.

Why? Because they simply are not ready for freedom, partly because the guiding hand of a caring, ruling elite is not available to bring them into the light. Instead, the proles are actually voting. Which is terribly unseemly.

Of course, this kind of “journalism” has its parallels aimed at understanding our own benighted western savages—from Thomas Franks’ What’s the Matter with Kansas? to the huge overseas headline after the Bush reelection that posed the question (paraphrased from memory), ”how could 58 million people be so stupid?” So is it really any surprise that sanctimonious liberal progressives would find the Other that they champion in theory so perfectly distasteful in fact?—at least, before the savages have been assimilated and incorporated into the landscape of the soft-socialist’s utopian plantation like so many little brown lawn jockeys...?

Posted by Jeff Goldstein @ 03:18 PM
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Journalism is a business that has discovered that out-right lies, (Hurricane Katrina, The Domestic Spying Coverage, The Plame coverage, Fauxtography, etc. etc.) are more benfical to their poltical agenda than simply shading the truth. Therefore we will see more out right lies. It is that simple.

Posted by corvan | permalink
on 11/27 at 05:13 PM

So is it really any surprise that sanctimonious liberal progressives would find the Other that they champion in theory so perfectly distasteful in fact?—at least, before the savages have been assimilated and incorporated into the landscape of the soft-socialist’s utopian plantation...?

No. Leftist racism is no surprise at all. The Middle East is entirely full of poor, oppressed brown people whose lives would be simply wonderful if not for the meddling hand of the western hegemonic military-industrial complex. And the fact that they’re all filthy savages.

Yep, that’s the morally superior left.

Posted by Pablo | permalink

The frigen L/MSM have been using bogus reporting since the early days of the SASO part of this operation. They have tailored as we know, so much stuff to meet their agendas one could not start to try to collate and classify the shit as to it's worthyness.

Thanks E.