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Wasn't there some talk a couple months back about him being involved in summary executions of bad guys in Iraqi police stations?

Yes, there was... problem is, the story was bogus.

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>
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