E&P has the details: The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and t
January 3, 2007

E&P has the details:

The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media. Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported by The Associated Press.

The captain, whose full name is Jamil Gholaiem Hussein, was one of the sources for an AP story in late November about the burning and shooting of six people during a sectarian attack at a Sunni mosque...read on

So now this guy is going to be arrested because the right wing blogonuts (and Eason Jordan who has taken up with them to get his website off the ground) have been on a mission to intimidate the AP and other news agencies so they will only print the touchy---feel good stories in Iraq. Go check it out Michelle. Contact all your really good Army sources and tell us what you come up with. And the media will continue to kowtow to them no matter what happens. Conservatives face no consequences for the people that they smear---ever.

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