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Proven: "Jamil Hussein" does not exist! (Updated, bumped)
Part 36 of a series. Continued from this post. J-DAMN
Confederate Yankee
And so a major Associated Press claim in "Jamilgate" takes an apparently fatal hit.
According to Bill Costlow of CPATT (Civilian Police Assistance Training Team) in Baghdad, and as forwarded by Lt. Michael Dean of Multinational Corps-Iraq/Joint Operations Command Public Affairs, our now infamous police captain in Iraq appears to be definitively not Jamil Hussein.
Nor is his name Jamil Gholaiem Hussein as stated repeatedly by the Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll and other Associated Press employees.
Nor is his name Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim, as he has been called previously in other accounts. According to his personnel records at MOI, confirmed with BG Abdul-Kareem and then reportedly verified by BG Abdul-Karim Khalaf with AP's Baghdad sources, his name is actually Jamil Gulaim "XX".
The "XX" protects his second middle name and real last names, of which "Hussein" is not a part.
To sum up the current situation as things now appear to stand:
- There is no Baghdad police officer at the Khadra police station named Captain Jamil Hussein, and never has been. Jamil Hussein, and Jamil Gholaiem Hussein are pseudonyms for Jamil Gulaim Innad "X".
- The Associated Press published a pseudonym without acknowledging that fact, apparently knowing, if BG Abdul-Kareem is correct, that they were publishing a false identity. Is that a big deal? HUGE. This is a major breach of journalistic ethics.
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*** The Latest On Jamil Hussein
His personnel record says his name is: Jamil Gulaim xxxx xxxxx
Spokesman BG Abdul-Kareem has spoken with members of the AP in Baghdad and has confirmation that he is their source. That said, CPT Jamil still denies ever speaking to them.
As far as the MOI is concerned, CPT Jamil gave the AP bad information: there's still no evidence the six murders occurred.
So there you are. I have responded back to Bill with the question how the BG can confirm that he is the source if he denied being the source?
That being said, the AP used a pseudonym for Jamil without acknowledging that fact. Confederate Yankee did an interview with five bigwigs in the world of journalism asking about the use of pseudonym's in reports and got the following: ...
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*** Update and bump. Original timestamp 11:34 AP: Discrediting Jamil's Sources
Confederate Yankee
A wise and well-traveled journalist spoke with me via email yesterday regarding the stupidity of mistakes made by the large and the arrogant Goliaths of our world: ...One thing they ALWAYS do, in my experience, is make MAJOR mistakes in the very beginning. Mistakes that are so major that people say, "Nope, that can't be true. They never would do something that stupid." But they do. And then the big people usually rely on intimidation...and if that doesn't work (and it's not with you on this), those initial huge errors they make become HUGE and inescapable...
And so back to the beginning I went, and indeed, the Associated Press seems to have done an excellent job of discrediting Jamil Huss—excuse me, "Jamil XX" on their own. How much did they discredit him?
To the point most rational people would question why he was ever allowed to continue as an Associated Press source at all.
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Do you remember this JunkYardBlog post, where See Dubya marveled at the ability of Captain Jamil XX to be report incidents of violence from literally all over Baghdad?
See Dubya noted: ...
Read the whole thing.
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Patterico: The Latest on Jamil Redacted: Sorry, I Don’t Get It
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Tony Snow: “I’m looking forward to meeting Capt. Jamil Hussein”
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Confederate Yankee: Does Tony Snow Read CY?
Part 36 of a series. Part 37
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