Regret the Error » asawat al-iraq http://www.regrettheerror.com Mistakes Happen Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:25:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Editor retracts story of killings http://www.regrettheerror.com/2007/12/04/editor-retracts-story-of-killings/ http://www.regrettheerror.com/2007/12/04/editor-retracts-story-of-killings/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:00:15 +0000 Craig Silverman http://www.regrettheerror.com/wire-service/editor-retracts-story-of-killings From Roy Greenaslade of the Guardian:

Last Tuesday I carried a report headlined 11 relatives of Iraqi journalist killed. It now transpires that the story, widely carried in the United States, was false. Dhia al-Kawaz, editor of the Jordan-based Asawat al-Iraq news agency, has since admitted that his claim that gunmen had killed 11 of his family members in Baghdad was untrue. In fact, only his brother-in-law was killed in a single incident. His family say he lied in order to get his family refugee status in Jordan.

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