Salon.com Challenges NY Times' Abu Ghraib "Scoop"...

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First Posted: 03-14-06 10:56 AM   |   Updated: 03-28-08 02:43 AM

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The New York Times announced Monday night that it would review the accuracy of a recent Page One story that claimed to identify the hooded detainee shown in one of the most iconic photos of abuse from Abu Ghraib, after Salon presented evidence suggesting that the paper had identified the wrong man.

In an apparent scoop on Saturday, the Times reported that Ali Shalal Qaissi, a former Baath Party member, had been photographed standing on a cardboard box, hooded, with his arms spread, a blanket around his shoulders and electrical wires extending from his hands.

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Filed by Katharine Zaleski
 



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