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Tuesday, 30 January 2007
The Case for Outing Jamil?

Part 46 of my Jamilgate series. Continued from this post.

The Case for Outing Jamil?
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I'm presenting working on what will likely be my last post on the Jamil Hussein/Hurriyah mosque attacks debacle. I've got some emails out to several sources and the AP itself attempting to tie up loose ends, and I won't write a final draft until those addressed have a reasonable amount of time to respond.

I did, however, have one question I addressed to all of those I queried, that I'd like to ask my readers as well:

Should I "out" Jamil, revealing his real, full, and complete name? ...

As long as there's any chance whatsoever that AP simply made up a name that by pure coincidence bore a similarity to a real person, I wouldn't.

According to Haider Ajina (in his 40s, Iraqi immigrant ~20 years ago, still has family there, US citizen, emails me sometimes but I'm quoting Gateway Pundit here) Iraqi boys named Jamil are almost as common as American boys named Sue. I figure it's 99.9% likely if AP was quoting Jamil Someone you have the right Jamil. But... what if some reporter made the name up thinking it would be like quoting "Mr. Susan Owens" and scored accidentally?

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Jules C: New Media on Old Media

Posted by Bill Faith on January 30, 2007 at 12:56 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Jamilgate, Media Malpractice | Permalink

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