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Read from Maobi's blog dated 8 January 2007, http://maobi.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_maobi_archive.html the following ...

"... Ali Shalah who claims to be the hooded man at Abu Ghraib. Actually this was printed by Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Salon and other dupes. Turns out it was a lie back then too.

This is the NYT retraction as was printed in March of last year... (the spelling of his name is changed shlightly)

A front-page article last Saturday profiled Ali Shalal Qaissi, identifying him as the hooded man forced to stand on a box, attached to wires, in a photograph from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal of 2003 and 2004. He was shown holding such a photograph. As an article on Page A1 today makes clear, Mr. Qaissi was not that man.
The Times did not adequately research Mr. Qaissi's insistence that he was the man in the photograph. Mr. Qaissi's account had already been broadcast and printed by other outlets, including PBS and Vanity Fair, without challenge. Lawyers for former prisoners at Abu Ghraib vouched for him. Human rights workers seemed to support his account. The Pentagon, asked for verification, declined to confirm or deny it.
Despite the previous reports, The Times should have been more persistent in seeking comment from the military. A more thorough examination of previous articles in The Times and other newspapers would have shown that in 2004 military investigators named another man as the one on the box, raising suspicions about Mr. Qaissi's claim.
The Times also overstated the conviction with which representatives of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International expressed their view of whether Mr. Qaissi was the man in the photograph. While they said he could well be that man, they did not say they believed he was.

The actual man in the hood is identified by the IHT later (in May 2006) as "Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh".

So, is he the real deal?

Nothing but a group of 'rejects' gathering to spew more nonsensical rubbish.

remy: I echo thee with some elaboration.

are memories so short and deficient that we have forgotten The Sacking of Salleh Abas?

How about for starters, we start at the starters' line?
A panel to look into a case of Dr Mahathir's "impeachment", a more immediate concern to Malaysians, not of matters on the far horizon, as we must THINK ALOUD, THINK ASLLOWED -- Charity begins at home?

Case of impeachment: -- that of the Sacking of Lord President Salleh Abas and several fellow senior judges in 1988. Recently, there has been calls, especially by the Bar Council, to "review" the Case, perhaps with the establishment of a Royal Commission to thoroughly examine the Case.
I reiterate here the same call for the formation of such a Royal Commission. The panel which reviewed the Bank Bumiputra Finance debacle (a collateral damage was loss of a Young Malaysian...don't you remember?) is a good example to emulate.

will someone (audience, esp. you bloggers) in the conference pointed out to him that there were allegations that he is not the man in the hood? (read my blog). what will he say?