I suspect this news you are breaking will make for an interesting next few days. Great work, CY. You've outdone yourself again.

Do you recall in my Weekly Standard article on Afghanistan (http://www.fumento.com/military/otherwar.html) where I said that one of the AP reporters I was quartered with said he thought 9/11 was a hoax? And he was no stringer; he worked directly for the agency. When you hire people like THAT you get stories like THIS.

That the AP would be hiring truthers is a story all by itself Michael.

Mehhh
AP runs another AQIZ propaganda piece in other words no change just the same old same old. Look with very few exceptions the MSM is 100% against this war and will do whatever it takes to lose it as a bonus their favorite political party gets to ride into power. Remember the old maxim "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" to the Dhimmi's and the MSM the enemy is the Republican party, Conservatives and anyone who does not march in lock step with them ie.. the American voter.

A police officer in Baghdad, you say?

Whatever could his name be? And how could a police officer in Baghdad get around and know so much about what's going on? And why do i get this Deja Vu feeling?

To be fair to AP, at least 20 bodies routinely turn up every morning in Bagdhad showing obvious signs of torture and execution, so rather than being an out of the ordinary story that should have raised scepticism it is much more routine. For example,

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/212/story/17350.html

Yes, they should have been more careful in their investigations, though I would hold off on a final judgement for a couple of days, but it hardly as if they received news that something wildly out of the ordinary had happened.

I also note this piece from the LA times;

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimesA78.html

Which contains the line (from a US officer);

"This week Odierno visited one such location — Salman Pak, a Sunni town on the Tigris River south of Baghdad. He spoke with soldiers as they pushed into Sunni-dominated neighborhoods where U.S. and Iraqi government forces had not ventured for two years. "

This week being the last week. That would imply that there really isn't a police force to talk about there, nor is there a meaningful government Presence. Until this week, there is. When Iraqi (Which mean Shiite in this case) forces entered the largely Sunni town. This is hinted at by the suggestion that the Bagdhad police source says that they knew about it because police were sent out to investigate. This surely implies that there aren't actually any police sources in Salman Pax to ask.

It is all speculation, of course, as are most things in Iraq.

Rafar, Salman Pak has their own police force and police stations with American advisors. They just defeated a small insurgent force that attacked the station on May 9.

Then I retract the above comment unreservedly.

And if weapons of mass destruction are not found in Iraq, perhaps an IED should be detonated in the Offal Office.

I hear that, in response to your post, the AP has decided to run a story indicated that milk and honey are now flowing freely in the Euphrates, and that the bodies daily found floating in it died from glucose and lactose intolerance.

Keep up the Sisyphean task of defending the indefensible!

Yea, fake news is such a valuable thing, exposing it is truly "indefensible". Goebbles would be proud.

Jaimenewman, I am not surprised by what you heard AP is planning to report. I am not surprised that AP *plans to report* rather than reports news gathered.

Finally, I would not be surprised if AP used your comment here as a verification of the event, either.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Would everyone assume their previous positions the last time we had the "If things are so bad in Iraq, why do they need to use fake news? / Just because you disprove one story it doesn't discount the hundreds of other bad news stories coming out of Iraq or do you think they are all fake" argument.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same. Would everyone assume their previous positions the last time we had the "If things are so bad in Iraq, why do they need to use fake news? / Just because you disprove one story it doesn't discount the hundreds of other bad news stories coming out of Iraq or do you think they are all fake" argument.

Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at June 29, 2007 10:30 AM"

It's not so much the fake stories and the under-researched stories and the distorted stories (abu Ghraib & Gitmo come to mind, as well as Haditha) but the flat out UNreporting of the positive events. Of course, that doesn't fit the template of "embarrass Bush and destroy the Republican party" nor the "if it bleeds it leads" mentality of the MSM. In truth, if they were honest about what's really going on in Iraq and domestically, there would be no liberal movement nor Democrat party...at least in its current state - further left than it's ever been.

Here's one from Reuters, CY. It's from yesterday with a timestamp of 9:23AM BST:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2828862620070628

The earliest AP report I could find was 5:05 AM EDT, 28 June from The Columbian:
http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP06282007news159409.cfm

Not sure who had it on the wires first but Reuters looks like it may have been first. I'm pretty sure BST (British Summer Time) beats EDT though.

Skimming through reports from both, Reuters' was out of Baghdad, was very brief and read as being skeptical and I don't see that there was any elaboration.

On the other hand, AP had a very early report, too which was about as brief, but then a very large story followed with much more elaboration.

FWIW, I noticed two out of Australia that were also very brief at about 6 PM which might be about the same as 6AM EDT, without attirbution to a news organization, just Correspondents out of Baghdad. The wordig however looks more like Reuters than AP but I'll have to check more closely.

Seems like AP chased it, but why they chased it away from those who could verify and not towards those who could verify is, well, interesting.

I have some screen shots and cut and pasted stories if you have a need.

The answer is obvious to anyone who isn't drinking the Red State kool-aid. The bodies are cleverly hidden in those five... no, four mosques that weren't totally destroyed back in November.

Soylent Green -- the spooks are just turning them all into Soylent Green.

...let's play the democrats' favorite game, the 'suspicious timing' game. Is it any wonder that the AP was in an overly eager rush to try and publish any sort of bad news out of Baghdad in order to minimize and create doubt about a slightly later story, Gen. Joe Fil's remarks that nearly half of Baghdad is now under control?

DJ, I missed that one. Where did you see that report?

Even some of the MSM is starting to notice.

From an opinion_editorial by John Hughes,
Wed Jun 20 - Christian Science Monitor

Meanwhile, in a separate firefight at a makeshift suicide vehicle factory, three separate suicide bombers were killed, two suicide trucks were discovered and blown up, and foreign and other fighters were killed or captured. On the defending side, one civilian and one policeman were wounded, with no US or other casualties. "The enemy was killed in his tracks; his best weapon was discovered before it could cause any harm," says the officer, "but Western media reported no enemy killed in these operations, 28 civilians killed, and 50 civilians wounded. We are getting demolished," the Marine officer says, "by nefarious enemy media outlets … 'reporters' or 'sources' for Arab and other news agencies either on insurgent payrolls or who have known sympathies with insurgent operations, and by collective Western media that are often being manipulated by enemy elements. What incredible economy of effort the enemy is afforded when US media is their megaphone. Why spend precious resources on developing your own propaganda machine when you can make your opponent's own news outlets scream your message louder than you could ever have hoped to do independently?"

I'm trying to figure out how the AP could damage their credibility when they have none left to begin with.

The U.S. Military is officially calling the decapitation story a hoax.

Bravo to Confederate Yankee-- a reliable and honest news source!

Heh,

You make me laugh. You used "AP" and "Credibility" in the same sentence....

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Sorry, it's just so hard to actually read anything anymore that eminates from either AP, Reuters, or the NYT. Not that I am jaded, mind you, but that, well, after listening to the various MSM and leftist groups whine about this war being "Bush's Vietnam" I would offer that, at the least, they certainly have the press reporting part of Vietnam down cold.

respects,

You were asking for a conformation from the same people that could not confirm that a "civil war" was taking place in Iraq

The German Newspaper "WELT" repeated this hoax on June,30 2007. I sent them an e-mail with a link to this post. I'm curios if they will respond. Keep on blogging, the MSN has become absolutly useless for anyone interested in facts, not fiction and bias.

This is just silly. I realize that the AP is a big bogie man for you guys, but you'll notice the AP reported the story as they heard it. The said the police were the source and they described in detail who the police officers were. I suspect that information is a bit harder to come by in a war zone than in Manhattan, and as someone else pointed out, it's not as if it's the first time a bunch of bodies have been found.

It may be they could have investigated more, and if so then fine, criticize them for that. But for you folks it's always got to be part of a nefarious agenda. The AP routinely reports spin from the administration uncritically, and agrees to withold the identity of the administration official they are talking to, for no other reason than that's what their source wants. Do you criticize them every time that happens?