I've come across a curious report which suggests that if police Captain Jamil Hussein does exist, he may be linked to a source for insurgency propaganda.
I call your attention to this item:
43: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Maysun Ahmad Baqir al-Hashimi, the sister of Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, on April 26, international media reported. Police captain Jamil Husayn said that al-Hashimi and her bodyguard were killed as they were leaving her home in the capital. The vice president's brother Mahmud was killed in Baghdad on April 13. Gunmen assassinated the brother of Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi in Baghdad last year. KR
One might assume the different spelling is simply a matter of convention, but there's a problem with that. As far as I can tell, our Jamil (Jamail) Hussein isn't credited as a source for the report by any western media - not AP, AFP or Reuters. And their reporting of the incident has less detail than the above report.
April 27, 2006 -- Iraqi officials say unidentified gunmen killed Maysun al-Hashimi, the sister of Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, in Baghdad today.
Maysun al-Hashimi's bodyguard was also gunned down in the attack. They were traveling in a car at the time of the ambush.
The only other detailed report comes from Iraqi Resistance Reports (linked below) and is credited to Mafkarat al-Islam, which the State Department lists as a disinformation source.
Islam Memo, or Mafkarat al-Islam, is perhaps the most unreliable source of "news" about Iraq on the Internet. For example, on March 27, 2005, Islam Memo "news items" translated into English by Muhammad Abu Nasr claimed that more than 88 U.S. soldiers had been killed that day. In reality, none had been killed. Such disinformation fabrications are typical of Islam Memo. In the ten-day period from March 20 to March 29, 2005, they claimed that more than 334 U.S. troops had been killed. The real number was eight.
So we have a Captain Jamil Husayn giving a slightly detailed account of an assassination to someone, disinformation sources, perhaps, yet Jamil Hussein having seemingly nothing to offer the AP. Hmm. Maybe someone will do a Lexus Nexus and find Hussein was a source on this incident for Western media, but I couldn't find it.
In a dispatch posted at 9:45am Makkah time Thursday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters shot and killed Maysun al-Hashimi the sister of the puppet “Iraqi Vice President” Dr. Tariq al-Hashimi.
The Baghdad correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that unknown men armed with machine guns mowed down Maysun al-Hashimi, the sister of puppet “Vice President” who is also the General Secretary of the collaborationist “Iraqi Islamic Party.”
The “Iraqi Islamic Party” was formed just after the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 out of members of the Sunni fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood organization. It collaborated with US proconsul L. Paul Bremer, taking a seat on his puppet “Governing Council,” and has remained a part of the American-run political establishment ever since.
The Resistance fighters ambushed al-Hashimi in southern Baghdad’s as-Sayyidiyah district, killing her instantly, and then withdrawing from the scene. Maysun al-Hashimi worked in the woman’s section of the “Islamic Party.”
Muhammad al-Hashimi, the brother of puppet “Vice President” al-Hashimi was killed in an armed attack on prominent Sunni businessmen in Baghdad’s as-Sanak district on 13 April.
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