Suckered?
The Pentagon has announced it will charge Bilal Hussein with being a terrorist operative. Not a good day for the Associated Press:
Hussein was detained April 12, 2006 after marines entered his house in Ramadi to establish a temporary observation post and found bomb-making materials, insurgent propaganda and a surveillance photograph of a US military installation.
Morrell said Hussein, who was part of an AP photo team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, had previously aroused suspicion because he was often at the scene insurgent attacks as they occurred.
AP offers a defense thinly disguised as a news article, prompting this reply from John Hinderaker:
…would the AP have us believe that its stringer was wandering in the desert and just happened to come across the murder scene, whereupon the murderers obligingly posed for his benefit? How stupid does the Associated Press think we are?
I’m not sure we’ve reached that level yet. I’m holding out for the “psychic” defense.