SAMEER N. YACOUB - We Need To Look At This Guy

Update: And apparently he was on the scene when our contractors were burned and hung. He has several eye witness quotes.

Chanting "Fallujah is the graveyard of Americans," residents cheered after the grisly assault on two four-wheel drive civilian vehicles, which left both in flames. Others chanted, "We sacrifice our blood and souls for Islam."

Associated Press Television News pictures showed one man beating a charred corpse with a metal pole. Others tied a yellow rope to a body, hooked it to a car and dragged it down the main street of town. Two blackened and mangled corpses were hung from a green iron bridge across the Euphrates.

"The people of Fallujah hanged some of the bodies on the old bridge like slaughtered sheep," resident Abdul Aziz Mohammed said. Some of the corpses were dismembered, he said.

Beneath the bodies, a man held a printed sign with a skull and crossbones and the phrase "Fallujah is the cemetery for Americans."

APTN showed the charred remains of three slain men. Some were wearing flak jackets, said resident Safa Mohammedi.

One resident displayed what appeared to be dog tags taken from one body. Residents also said there were weapons in the targeted cars. APTN showed one American passport near a body and a U.S. Department of Defense identification card belonging to another man.

Not only did AP's SAMEER N. YACOUB report a story falsely claiming Americans killed innocent civilians when it was actually insurgents - but get this:

68,300 mentions in Google

2,050 in Google News

Now read his glowing reportage of Saddam Hussein circa 2002:

Iraqi parliament objects
Says UN resolution full of lies, ill intents
By Sameer N. Yacoub  | Associated Press | Tuesday, November 12, 2002

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's parliament condemned a new tough U.N. resolution as full of lies and ill intentions during a special session Monday in which a senior lawmaker urged rejection of the Security Council directive--a prospect that could prompt an attack by the United States and Britain.

President Saddam Hussein has used the rubber-stamp parliament as cover for difficult decisions in the past, and the tough language does not necessarily mean parliament will reject the proposal.

After opening speeches, during which lawmakers applauded every time Saddam's name was mentioned, members went into closed session for two hours before adjourning until Tuesday. The opening of the emergency meeting was broadcast live on satellite television.

And this. The guy looks like he was a mouthpiece for Saddam Hussein.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq hopes for fair treatment from U.N. weapons inspectors because the stability of the entire Persian Gulf region depends on their work, a newspaper owned by Saddam Hussein's son said Sunday.

At the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad a day ahead of the inspectors' expected arrival, workers were seen cleaning the three-story building, while others were working in the garden and fixing the ceiling of the car park.

And here's a history of some of his reporting over three years.

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[ABUTOM THE AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALIST]

10-8-07. AP KILLS BLACKWATER EMPLOYEES. YOU HAVE TO EXAMINE NOT ONLY THE STORY BUT THE SOURCE. SO I GOOGLED SAMEER N. YACOUB AND LEARNED HE JUST HAPPENED TO BE IN FALLUJAH WHEN AMERICAN CONTRACTORS BODIES WERE BEING BURNED AND MUTILATED.
HE WAS ROOTING FOR AL QUEDA. THE PICTURE THAT CALLS FOR OUTRAGE IS A KID LOOKING IN A BLODDY VEHICLE BUT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BLACKWATER INCIDENT. IT WAS A VEHICLE HIT BY A ROADSIDE BOMB. SO WHY IS IT WITH THE BLACKWATER STORY? BECAUSE AMERICANS DON'T READ. THEY ONLY JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS. WHO ELSE IS IN THE ARTICLE BY NOM DE BOMB? NOURI AL MALAKI WHO IS GOING TO STIFF THE USA BIG TIME. THE HANDHOLDER OF AMADINEJAD. ALI AL DABBAGH IS THE GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN. HE SAID NOT A STONE WAS THROWN. I ALSO SAW HEADLINES SHOUTING DRUNKEN MERCENARIES. HAS BLACKWATER BEEN DUKED?
IN CHECKING OUT AL DABBAGH I FIND HIM BASED ON WHAT I SAW AS PRO IRAQI AND TRYING TO BRING HIS COUNTRY FORWARD. AS FOR THE NOT ONE STONE STATEMENT.I BELIEVES HE BELIEVES HIS PEOPLE OVER THE AMERICANS AND HE IS MIS INFORMED.
THAT BRINGS US TO ABDUL QUADER AL OBEIDAI. NOTHING CAME BACK ON A GOOGLE SEARCH. HE SAID AMERICANS SPRAYED THE TOWN SQUARE WITHOUT PROVOCATION. I DON'T BUY IT. THE BODY JUMPED TO 17 FROM 11 WHEN MONEY WAS MENTIONED. SHERWAN AL WAILI SAID 13 WERE KILLED. THE BALANCE OF POWER IS VERY DELICATE
AND SHIAA WILL NOT GO BACK TO SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF THE SUNNIS. ALLIANCES ARE PROBABLY VERY COMPLICATED.
I DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE IRAQI MOTIVE AS MUCH AS I WORRY ABOUT THE MOTIVES OF THE AMERICAN DIPLOMATS WHO ARE NEVER CONCERNED ABOUT AMERICAN LIVES. THE FBI WHO CAN'T CATCH TERRORISTS IN NEW YORK ARE GOING TO LOOK GOOD PERSECUTING AMERICANS IN IRAQ AS THEY PERSECUTED GITMO GUARDS FOR AL QUEDA. THEY CAN'T EVEN FIND JIMMY HOFFA. THEY WENT AFTER A
POLYGAMIST IN UTAH BUT CAN'T FIND BIN LADEN THE PAKISTANI POLYGAMIST. ALONG WITH A DIPLOMAT NAMED STAPLETON ROY. 71 YEARS OLD AND IS AN EXPERT ON CHINESE RELATIONS.THE PANEL WILL BE LED BY PATRICK KENNEDY WHENEVER I SEE THE KENNEDY NAME I GET VERY APPREHENSIVE. IT APPEARS CONDI RICE IS ABOUT TO SACRIFICE BLACKWATER TO APPEASE THE IRAQIS. MY QUESTION IS ARE THE IRAQUIS FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THEY WANT THOSE JOBS OR THAT IT IS HARD TO KILL BLACKWATER EMPLOYEES AND THEIR CLIENTS? FOLLOW THIS ONE CLOSELY BECAUSE IT HAS ALL THE TRAPPINGS OF A POLITICAL AUCTION. IN CHECKING KENNEDY'S SAME SCHOOL ALUMNI I SEE CLINTON, NANCY SODERBERG, ALBREIT, GEORGE SLAM DUNK TENET,AND DICK DURBIN. THERE ARE CONSERVATIVES ALSO.
WWW.SPIRITOFAMERICAPARTYBOOK.COM
WWW.BLOGTALKRADIO.COM SOAP

[Marc Angelucci]

Sameer N. Yacoub's latest AP story, "Coalition Forces Kill 20 Insurgents," repeatedly emphasizes that "women" were among those killed.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061208/D8LSQO701.html

Why does he do this? Are male lives less valuable than female lives? Obviously, this AP reporter has a political bias and wants to play off the public's sympathy for women. But in the process he is devaluing the lives of males. That's called male disposability.

Marc E. Angelucci
President
Los Angeles chapter
National Coalition of Free Men
http://www.ncfmla.org

[Buzzy]

The Democrats?

[ajacksonian]

Maybe he was the mole mentioned in the FMSO documents: http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008030.php

An AP mole for Saddam... positive reporting on Saddam... possibly working for new paymasters now.

[Buzzy]

Maybe a face to the terrorist threat in Iraq and of course he works for AP.