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Ive already heard from some outraged liberals on this one. They were silent when Saddam killed between a half million and a million of his own people and his neighbors. Now some vague allegations that this guy killed a few terrorists and they're outraged.

I think they'll be silent on this one too after they see this:

Editor defensive over discredited Iraq reports
The Australian ^
Posted on 06/22/2005 7:01:32 PM PDT by jmc1969
THE editor of Melbourne's The Age newspaper has defended Australia's Journalist of the Year, Paul McGeough, in the wake of revelations that he may have erred in two significant reports he filed from Iraq.
McGeough claimed in an article published in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that former Iraqi interim leader Iyad Allawi shot dead as many as six prisoners in June last year.
But the story was discredited by a report yesterday that Iraqi officials and US special forces bodyguards assigned to Allawi had passed lie detector tests in denying the murder allegations.
"My view is that we have to trust our journalists," The Age editor Andrew Jaspan said yesterday.
"Paul McGeough is a former editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald - (an) extremely well-respected journalist. It's not as though he's wet behind the ears when he goes to somewhere like Iraq.
"As an editor I have to trust the fact that he is being professional, doing his job well, and on that basis we run his stories," Jaspan said.
A Sydney newspaper quoted a senior government official as saying there was "no evidence whatsoever to support the claims made in the (McGeough) article".
A winner of last year's Graeme Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year, McGeough also reported on Saturday that the rescue of hostage Douglas Wood had supposedly been botched by an Australian raid on a Sunni political leader in Baghdad. ...</snip>
(Excerpt) Read more at theadvertiser.news.com.au .

More on Paul McGeough- look who he had been traveling with back in Iraq - wannabe Baghdad Bob intern Robert Fiske:

APRIL 2003 : (ROBERT FISKE PROPAGANDIZES FOR HUSSEIN) "Anyone who doubts that the Iraqi Army is prepared to defend its capital should take the highway south of Baghdad. How, I kept asking myself, could the Americans batter their way through these defenses?" -- Robert Fisk. With Fisk that day was SMH columnist Paul McGeough, who later reported: “Robert gets a bit windy from time to time."
[* my note: Paul McGeough is the guy who later claimed, using unsubstantiated and anonymous sources, that the future Iraqi leader Allawi at the time shot prisoners]