Tag: Najibullah Zazi

AP Blows! (Zazi/Al-Queda Connection Story)

Remember all those stories about how Najibullah Zazi (the ‘New 9-11 Bomber’) had ‘direct contacts’ with yet another Al-Queda Number Three?

Not so true after all.

They were all based on faulty reporting by Associated Press Reporters Adam Goldman and Brett J. Blackledge.

The initial report, from New York, on Oct. 14 was based on AP’s misinterpretation of a series of telephone and e-mail exchanges between an AP reporter and two U.S. intelligence officials. The officials told the AP on Thursday that they had not been aware of any contact between al-Yazid and Zazi. They spoke throughout on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

Shame on you assholes.