N.Y. Times' Iraq Detainee Story Challenged (Hooded Guy)

Yahoo News ^ | 3/14/06 | Staff

[ChuckShick]

Tue Mar 14, 9:22 AM ET

NEW YORK - The New York Times is investigating questions raised about the identity of a man who said in a Page 1 profile that he is the Abu Ghraib prisoner whose hooded image became an icon of abuse by American captors.

The online magazine Salon.com challenged the man's identity, based on an examination of 280 Abu Ghraib pictures it has been studying for weeks and on an interview with an official of the Army's Criminal Investigation Command. The official says the man the Times profiled Saturday, Ali Shalal Qaissi, is not the detainee in the photograph.

In an e-mail to the Times, Chris Grey, chief spokesman for the Army investigations unit, wrote: "We have had several detainees claim they were the person depicted in the photograph in question. Our investigation indicates that the person you have is not the detainee who was depicted in the photograph released in connection with the Abu Ghraib investigation."

[ChuckShick]

The Slimes checks with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International but doesn't bother to talk with the Army. Good work, morons.

[msnimje]

The truth is of no interest to the Times. They are agenda pushers, not truth seekers.

[garyhope]

Abu Ghraib, Abu Nothing. Who cares?

Anybody killed by Americans in Abu Zero?

Maybe my ex wife's panties on their heads might kill em, but not photos.

Once again, who cares?

[lilyred]

The NYT, the detainees....they all lie like dogs....

[Clara Lou]

Publish now, check veracity of story later.

[Mikey_1962]

I had worse when I pledged a Fraternity.

[USS Alaska]

Hooded Guy?

[Southack]

"The online magazine Salon.com challenged the man's identity, based on an examination of 280 Abu Ghraib pictures it has been studying for weeks and on an interview with an official of the Army's Criminal Investigation Command. The official says the man the Times profiled Saturday, Ali Shalal Qaissi, is not the detainee in the photograph."

Another Dan Rather, Jayson Blair moment for the left-wing news media.

[TASMANIANRED]

Times publishes another phony story.

Whoda thunk it.

[OESY]

None are so blind as he
who chooses not to see.

[pleikumud]

The NY Times and the Democrats are allies of the terrorists.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping.

Has the NY Slimes printed anything that has been true about the Iraqi War, before it started and up to now?

[Grampa Dave]

Looks like the Fudge Packers of America, aka, the NY Slimes and its maggots have gotten caught in another lie.

[devolve]

[Grampa Dave]

I get the chills and my arm hair rises up when I see your photo montage re the Clintoon and 9/11.

[Grampa Dave]

Another Fudgepacking liar at the NY Slimes gets his anti GW agenda gored by the Internet Truth Bull.

[pissant]

LOL. Huge Ouch!!! And deserved, richly.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Maybe Lindsey England can pick him out of a lineup.

[Grampa Dave]

The Internet Bull of Truth, daily gores the liars of the MSM.

[Southack]

Fabrications by the NY Times such as that pointed out by Salon.com are yet more reasons why reporters should *never* be granted immunity by "shield" laws, as well as why the news media should *never* be allowed to use anonymous sources.

We need to outlaw anonymous sources for the news media.