More Pushback

On Monday, US Central Command officially responded to AP reporting in Iraq with a strongly worded statement. Today, the pushback continued:


Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

Sir:

I have just learned from Mr. Costlow, mentioned below, that Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the official Ministry of Interior spokesmen, will begin his regularly scheduled press conference at noon tomorrow with a statement that Capt. Jamil Hussein, is not a Baghdad police officer or an MOI employee.

As Stephen Spruiell says, the ball's back in AP's court. Prove you're right. Or resign yourselves to looking like the dumb mark who got played.