Bogus AP Report on Iraq Outrage

Michelle Malkin has returned from Iraq and has reports in the NY Post today as well as at her site.

The AP has a serious credibility problem, needless to say.

While Bryan and I were in Iraq, Curt of Flopping Aces and Bob Owens pressed forward on the Jamil Hussein angle. Whether the AP used a pseudonym for Hussein or not, and whatever the fickle Interior Ministry is now saying, Hussein's information clearly cannot be trusted. As bloggers have emphasized, Hussein was a single source for dozens of other AP stories about atrocities across a wide swath of Baghdad. And as AP executive Kathleen Carroll herself underscores:

"AP runs hundreds of stories a day, and has run thousands of stories about things that have happened in Iraq."

Or rather, things that their questionable sources and local stringers have told them have happened in Iraq.

Others on the story: Confederate Yankee, Jules Crittenden and LGF.