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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (24181)11/28/2006 2:11:50 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Another Reason Not to Trust the Reporting Coming Out of Iraq

By Patterico on General
Patterico's Pontifications
<All relevant links below>

Curt from Flopping Aces has the story of the day, though you have to scroll all the way to UPDATE XI near the bottom of this post to see it. Allah at Hot Air calls it a “bombshell,” and that was precisely my reaction when I heard about it.

Here’s the short version: an “Iraqi Police Captain” whom the AP has been quoting for months — is not, in fact, with the Iraqi Police or the Ministry of the Interior.

Which means he may well be an insurgent posing as a police officer.

See Dubya is following up on the AP reporter in posts here and here.

The latter post is a little bombshell of its own (a “bomblet”?), since See Dubya has found a connection between that AP reporter and the incident in Ramadi I have been discussing here in recent days.

I spoke with Curt on the phone about this today at lunch. I have the names of a couple other alleged police officials I’d like to check.

Good news: I may have someone at CENTCOM willing to answer those questions. I got an e-mail today (also left as a comment on my site) which I view as a very positive step by the military media folks:


<<< Sir,

I understand you ran into a bit of difficulty with our press desk last week.

I hope we can consider that water under the bridge and as you say, it is an isolated incident. I would like to invite you to join our mailing list and get in the loop with the CENTCOM Blog Team.

CENTCOM does indeed recognize the importance and value of blogs especially when it comes to getting out positive news in what seems to be an overwhelming sea of negative coverage of events in Iraq and the Global War on Terror in general.

U.S. Central Command Public Affairs has a team of three individuals, an officer and two enlisted, whose main responsibilities are to reach out to those of you who operate blogs that discuss and write about matters in the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

I do wish the events that lead to this would have been handled differently, your request should have been routed to us but, what is done is done. I can say that the event did generate a memo from the Deputy Director,

    “We treat bloggers as we do “traditional media’ in all 
    respects.
    If you interact with bloggers please direct them to the 
    appropriate staff section as you would traditional media.”

For future reference, please directly media inquires to the blog team,

Capt. Anthony Deiss deisaa@centcom.mil
Spc. Patrick Ziegler zieglepa@centcom.mil
Spc. Chris Erickson erickscj@centcom.mil
electronicmedia@centcom.mil

V/R
Spc. Patrick A. Ziegler
U.S. Central Command
Public Affairs >>>

I encourage bloggers to use these folks — but try not to overwhelm them.

Thanks to Spc. Ziegler for the note.

And stay tuned.

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