Despite Further Investigation, AP's 'Body Burning' Source Still a Mystery


Michelle Malkin has the latest on efforts to identify the mysterious "Captain Jamil Hussein," the "source" the AP claimed as an authority figure for a number of reports out of Iraq, including the apocryphal November story that claimed "Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive."

As Malkin reports, the AP itself isn't being very cooperative in trying to follow up on new leads.

Yesterday, I contacted the AP about the "Jamil Hussein"/Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim/Ghulaim findings and asked these simple questions:
Ref. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006579.htm

1. Is Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim the real name of your oft-cited source, "Captain Jamil Hussein" aka " Jamil Gholaiem Hussein?"

2. If not, where is "Captain Jamil Hussein" currently working? If he is a Baghdad police officer, as AP asserts, why hasn't anyone -- not CPATT, not MOI, not Marc Danzinger's sources [nor Eason Jordan's] -- been able to locate him?

3. What is your response to the CPATT officers' report that Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim denies being AP's source?

Here is the response I received yesterday from AP media relations officer Linda Wagner:

Michelle-

I have no additional information for you at this time.

Linda

I also cc'ed my questions to AP exec editor Kathleen Carroll.

She did not respond.

Malkin says she has a source who "worked in the same police station where 'Jamil Hussein' allegedly worked." Says the source:

I have received back answers from both my RFI and from my IA S-2 [intelligence] and neither one has found a CPT Jamil Hussein working anywhere in Baghdad as an IP. My S-2 friend has talked with some of the officers in the Al-Yarmouk Police Station and they do not know him either.

WindsofChange.net says he did find a "Jamil Hussein" working at the police station in question, although...

there is no Capt. Jamil Hussein at Yarmouk, but there is a Sergeant by that name, with a somewhat dubious reputation (worked directly under Uday, Baathist remnant, etc.). So, we checked further, because, after all, I want to be certain before I start throwing too many things around, and it takes a different type and level of checking to have anything like confidence there than it does here to have something close to certainty - and be sure that we'll be talking about that a bit later.

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My sources tell me that the A

My sources tell me that the AP is a fictional elitist agenda driven spin master- but I've not been able to back that up with credible instances or sources yet- it's just a gut feeling.

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Where are the critics of the

Where are the critics of the "liberal media" who don't seem to have a complaint about Judith Miller's and others' flawed reporting in the gin-up to the war.

"Jamil Hussein"/Jam

"Jamil Hussein"/Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim/Ghulaim

Ah heck, what's in a name?

"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland

what make up

how could you think that a highly respected news perverting service,misplace something like a reporter, photos (i d's),log in files,time card's,paycheck'stubs, how shallow will you go,( you silly, silly hot'ie) 

You guys cry "liberal me

You guys cry "liberal media traitors" yet don't question why FOX News sent Oliver North to Iraq for a week and only had him report on happenings in Ramadi and Anbar (and even then he never mentioned that his escort was killed shortly after escorting him).  You would have thought that to be news worthy.

Nope- don't question it one b

Nope- don't question it one bit- any more questions?

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