Editor admits massacre story was untrue

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. (Via Sacbee)