August 02, 2007
Wrong City, Wrong Province: No Problem
The police station was in Hibhib.
Hibhib is not Baghdad. Baquba (or Baqouba) , the next-closest large city, is also is not Baghdad. Both are in Diyala Province, more than 30 miles north-northeast of Baghdad.
So how, precisely, is this a Baghdad police station?
Those multiple layers of fact checkers strike again...
Hibhib is 30 miles from the center of Baghdad. At least they got the "homicide bomber" part right.
Posted by: Bill Smith at August 2, 2007 02:39 PMBut they got the information from Jamil Hussein, so it must be right.
Posted by: Don Surber at August 2, 2007 03:25 PMGo blogs! MSM has nothing on us! Except for satellite uplinks and helicopter coverage... But besides that, blogs rule!
Posted by: Yishai at August 2, 2007 03:52 PMUm . . . you're aware that headline would have been written by Fox News and not the Associated Press, right?
You may have proved something here, but it's not what you intended....
Posted by: rusty t. at August 2, 2007 03:54 PMThe AP and Foxnews.com are left biased cesspools.
Posted by: ME at August 2, 2007 04:05 PMWhat, you mean you can't see Hibhib from the Al Rashid Hotel?
Posted by: Dusty at August 2, 2007 05:49 PMHey, if you think that's bad, Scott Thomas Beauchamp got the whole country wrong!
Posted by: Pablo at August 3, 2007 02:04 AMI doubt if Blowchimp gets the spelling of his own name right more than once every ten tries or so ...
Posted by: Brian H at August 3, 2007 07:50 AM
