(Part 2 -- Continued from this post.) -- Updated and bumped

Once again, starting a new post that could be added to the earlier one if it wasn't already getting so long.

Getting The News From The Enemy, Update
Curt (Flopping Aces)

I found this transcript from MSNBC in which they refer to the Burning Six bogus story as one reason why they have now decided to call the Iraq situation a “civil war”:

The news from Iraq is becoming grimmer every day. Over the long holiday weekend bombings killed more than 200 people in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. And six Sunni men were doused with kerosene and burned alive. Shiite muslims are the majority, but Sunnis like Saddam Hussein ruled that country until the war. Now, the battle between Shiites and Sunnis has created a civil war in Iraq. Beginning this morning, MSNBC will refer to the fighting in Iraq as a civil war — a phrase the White House continues to resist. But after careful thought, MSNBC and NBC News decided over the weekend, the terminology is appropriate, as armed militarized factions fight for their own political agendas. We’ll have a lots more on the situation in Iraq and the decision to use the phrase, civil war.

And there you have it. It has begun. The MSM has been using bogus officials to supply chaos to their stories and based on those same stories has decided Iraq is now an official civil war. ...

Read the whole thing. If you can't get to the original post click here to go to Curt's backup site.

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More of the same, from the backup site:

Another big update from Centcom. Recall my Update I where I link to this article by the AP:

Separately, police and witnesses said U.S. soldiers shot and killed 11 civilians and wounded five on Sunday night in the Baghdad suburb of Husseiniya. The U.S. military said it had no record of any American military operation in the area.

“We were sitting inside our house when the Americans showed up and started firing at homes. They killed many people and burned some houses,” said one of the witnesses, a man with bandages on his head who was being treated at Imam Ali Hospital in the Shiite slum of Sadr City. The police and witnesses spoke with Associated Press Television News on condition of anonymity to protect their own security.

On Monday, about 250 people attended a memorial service outside the hospital’s morgue for the 11 victims, saying it was being conducted in the slum because the dead had been followers of the radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The cleric and his Madhi Army militia are both based in Sadr City.

Centcom just sent me this update:

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

Sir -

Reference the clarification requested on the story by AP below.

Anti-Iraqi Forces opened fire, targeting civilians in the al-Husseiniya area. 10 civilians were killed and six wounded at 11 p.m. Nov. 26. The incident was reported by the Iraqi Police through the Joint National Operations Center (a civilian matter relayed to the Coalition for tracking purposes). There was no Coalition involvement.

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Capt. XXX XXXXX XXXXX (USAF)

Multi-National Corps - Iraq
Joint Operations Center
PAO OIC Nights

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Centcom: AP wrongly blamed us for jihadi attack on civilians
Allahpundit

The victims said American troops gunned down a group of Iraqis, American troops say otherwise.

Curt’s having a good day, huh?

Sir -

Reference the clarification requested on the story by AP below.

Anti-Iraqi Forces opened fire, targeting civilians in the al-Husseiniya area. 10 civilians were killed and six wounded at 11 p.m. Nov. 26. The incident was reported by the Iraqi Police through the Joint National Operations Center (a civilian matter relayed to the Coalition for tracking purposes). There was no Coalition involvement.

That makes three suspect incidents in the past four days, starting with Patterico’s post about the phony airstrike on Friday, then Curt’s expose of the fake police captain this morning, and now this. Yet the only one of the three where the body count is in (substantial) dispute is the second one, which had to do with the six Sunnis supposedly set on fire by Shiites whom no one seems to have heard of. ...

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Ed Morrissey: It's A Flopping Aces Scoop

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Fake news vs. real news from Iraq
Michelle Malkin

Poll time"

[poll form, interim results]

Not to skew the poll results, but the Associated (with terrorists) Press has a lot of explaining to do. I've re-sent my unanswered e-mail to AP from yesterday morning about the increasingly dubious Burned Six story. Also sent a follow-up e-mail to the corporate communications office asking them to respond to the latest startling revelation at Curt at Flopping Aces challenging this AP story, which reported that "police and witnesses said U.S. soldiers shot and killed 11 civilians and wounded five on Sunday night in the Baghdad suburb of Husseiniya." Curt received the following e-mail:

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Then there are the questions See-Dubya has raised about numerous unverified police sources (being investigated by the military, as Curt first disclosed) but quoted by the AP in its version of the very same suspicious story about an alleged airstrike in Ramadi dissected by Patterico.

Update: Jim Hoft checks out another suspicious AP source, Lt. Maithem Abdul Razzaq.

Still no response from AP to this published by Flopping Aces yesterday afternoon: ...

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Sameer N. Yacoub: AP's Terrorist Supporter or Lazy Green Zone Reporter?
Dr. Rusty Shackleford

If you haven't been keeping up with the ongoing saga of bad reporting from Iraq, you should be. Look, things are not going well in a lot of areas in Iraq. But some of these false reports are inflaming violence and are, in fact, a form of blood lible equivalent to the old lies about Jews killing Christian children.

The purpose of allegations of attrocities committed by the US is to justify and inflame violence against us. Is AP reporter Sameer N. Yacoub purposely trying to get US troops killed by repeating accusations that the US opened fire on 11 unnarmed civilians when, in fact, no US troops were even in the area? I don't know.

Dan Riehl finds evidence that Yacoub was a longtime schill of the Hussein regime. He also finds evidence that Yacoub may have contacts within Sunni terror circles. On top of that, Flopping Aces first took note when the AP began to cite as authoritative sources people who were not actually working for the Iraqi agencies that they claimed to be working for.

Taken together, a case might be made that Yacoub and other AP reporters are closet Baathists, Sunni Islamicists, or simply anti-Shia/ anti-American. That they are part of the concerted propaganda war and media jihad declared by terrorists. See for instance our recent post on The Jihad Media Battalion or Greyhawk's great expose on the Global Islamic Media Front if you weren't aware that the terrorists actually admit that there is a propaganda war going on.

However, there is another explanation.  ...

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Dan Riehl: SAMEER N. YACOUB - We Need To Look At This Guy

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Part 2 of a series. Part 3 is here.