[faq]

USA Today has been covering this story. Here is their latest: Iraqi official calls AP's atrocity story a 'rumor;' AP stands by its work

[Diogenesis]

AP's runt-"reporter" and terrorist takes a bow.

[secretagent]

FYI

[shrinkermd]

Simply outrageous. Bias is one thing. Lies are another.

[Bahbah]

we have AP journalists with reporting and images from the actual neighborhood

All right then, where are the images of the burned Sunni bodies.

[Doctor Raoul]

Where's the funeral pics? Where Green Helmet Guy?

[Doctor Raoul]

[Shermy]

"because one of the sources is not on a list of people approved to talk to the press."

That's a beautiful lie. The Iraqis say he doesn't exist at all.

They flipped it to make it seem they have a special source.

[tobyhill]

It's very simple, let the "witnesses" show exactly where this action took place and then they can run test for the presence of human blood, burn marks on the rocks or concrete and traces of Kerosene.

[popdonnelly]

It seems rather simple. Someone would have picked up the bodies of the six that were burned. Nobody claims that the bodies were carried off by the perpetrators. No bodies in the morgue, no death records = no atrocity.

[gotribe]

Residents there have told us in detail about the attack on the mosque and that six people were burned alive during it.

I remember a number of years ago about a big story in South Carolina about the "lizard man." Everyone in the town had seen it or knew someone who had seen it, media came from all over the world to report on it. Bottom line: never existed. AP reporters in iraq are local stringers, and they latch onto the gossip and report it as fact.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

Ms. Carroll needs to get some new talking points. Her response is eerily similar to her response to the lack of positive reports from Iraq in August 2005. Back then she claimed it was easier to find out the number of dead than how many schools were built. She discounted the facts on reconstruction as nothing more than government propaganda.
http://www.opinioneditorials.com/freedomwriters/rboyd_20050816.html

It's a good thing the AP is standing behind its sources and its story. Otherwise they would be overcome with the stench of lies emanating from the piles of crap disguised as news reports.
http://www.chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com

[ForGod'sSake]

Just my take on it...

[Right Wing Assault]

went back and found several more witnesses to the immolations

Oh, like that's going to be hard to do. If you look long enough, you can always find someone to say they saw whatever you want.

[Torie]

The story would have more credibility if AP found and interviewed the families of the alleged victims. And where are the bodies? How were they disposed of?

[F-117A]

Captain Hussein?

[savedbygrace]

AP = Always Pimping

[Seaplaner]

...she responded via e-mail: "AP has reported this attack thoroughly and diligently, [she avoids "truthfully]

...speaking to police, witnesses and others who would know ["would know"? That's a conditional phrase. It's equivalent to "would know IF...] about the attack.

We sent reporters to the area later and found additional eyewitnesses whose stories were consistent." [Which does not mean that the story was corroborated, it only means that the four stories were the same.]

The AP weaves and parses Plausible Deniability most carefully into this e-mail. It's a work of evasion so finely polished that had he written the e-mail, impeached and disbarred former president Clinton could be proud of it.

Judge for yourselves to see if you conclude that overall, the news media are nothing less than tacit allies with the enemy.

Ugh.

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[marktwain]

What I find truly insane is that our enemies stated strategy is to dishearten the American people so that we will give up. There major weapon is disinformation, propaganda, and lies that are fed to the American people. To discount the possibility that their "stringers" are agents for the other side only shows that AP is actively working with them, actively is working for US defeat in Iraq.