POINT AND SHOT Slain AP cameraman Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah

Charles F. Johnson, the not-so-down-with-Allah blogger behind Little Green Footballs, is a veritable font of information about the Associated Press. Is the AP corrupt? Yes! Is it an enemy in the war on terrorism? You betcha! Do its photographers and reporters lie and distribute pro-terrorist propaganda? Absolutely!

Was Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah, a 35-year-old AP TV camera operator, murdered by Iraqi insurgents today while filming a gun
battle with Iraqi police forces? Surely Johnson, who, as of this writing, has managed to get five posts up this morning attacking Kofi Annan and other enemies of civilization, will get around to posting that bit of news any minute now ...

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