Gitmo Officer Successfully Got The Washington Post To Call Him 'Muscular'

Gitmo Freakout Leads To Crazy Correction
Jail cells and meeting area are seen at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on August 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO/CHANTAL VALERY (Photo credit should read CHANTAL VALERY/AFP/Getty Images)
Jail cells and meeting area are seen at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on August 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO/CHANTAL VALERY (Photo credit should read CHANTAL VALERY/AFP/Getty Images)

This tweet from Washington Post reporter Emma Brown got a great deal of attention on Wednesday:

It was definitely a hilarious correction. People naturally wondered how it had come about.

The answer was not hard to find: Durand—until recently the head of the Guantanamo Bay public affairs unit and a man who is fond of uploading pictures of himself after a long workout at the highly controversial detention facility—proudly discussed his freakout over the description on Facebook.

HuffPost's Ryan Reilly flagged the relevant posts:

So...mission accomplished!

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