Hat tip: Patterico

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Part 43 of a series. Continued from this post.

Hurriyah: Where We Go From Here 
Confederate Yankee

As you well know by now, thanks to a n investigation launched by Curt of Flopping Aces and followed up on by Michelle Malkin and Bryan Preston's visit to the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad as reported in the NY Post, Michelle's personal blog, and now via video at Hot Air, the Associated Press' reporting of massacres on November 24 were grossly exaggerated, and parts were apparently fabricated by a longtime Associated Press source they still call Jamil Hussein, even though we know otherwise.

The Associated Press released several very graphic versions of what they claimed occurred in Hurriyah on November 24, 2006. I'll now reproduce the relevant portions of two of those Associated Press accounts, so that you will know exactly what they claimed.

On November 24, the day of the attack, the Associated Press ran this version of the story, as captured in the Jerusalem Post:

Revenge-seeking Shi'ite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near an Iraqi army post. The soldiers did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said. ...

A day later, on November 25, the Associated Press ran this version of the story, as captured for posterity on Gainesville.com: ...

Read the whole thing.

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Jamilgate: Eerie silence from E&P about Hot Air’s Hurriya mosques report 
Allahpundit

I don’t get it. They’re interested in the story, aren’t they? For instance, when Marc Danziger reported on December 16th that he might have found Jamil Hussein at the Yarmouk police station, right where the AP had said he was, E&P wrote it up the very next morning — a Sunday, no less. They seemed pretty jazzed about it, too:

Allahpundit, posting at Malkin’s adjunct Hot Air blog, commented, “And what of the boss’s trip? Are she and Eason Jordan still going to be knocking on doors in Hurriya? So many questions!” The tag for the story on the Hot Air home page on Sunday read, “Anyone got any good recipes for crow?”

Then, on January 4th, when the AP story confirming Hussein’s existence broke, E&P had it even before we did. Again, garnished with a quote from yours truly:

Allahpundit, blogging at Hot Air, admitted, She and we were wrong about Jamil Hussein. Whether we’re wrong about the rest of it, too, we’ll see. Apologies, though, to the HA readers for having led you on a bit of a wild goose chase, however well founded and well intended our suspicions were.”

Today, they’ve got nothing. ...

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Eason Jordan said what?