Update: AP stands firm
Associated Press is firmly defending its story about the six Sunnis dragged from their mosque and set afire by Shiite militia men. It has not retreated one iota in the face of denunciations by the Iraqi "government," US military, and rightwing U.S. bloggers. And why should they? They confirmed the story six ways to Sunday, and if it upsets the Iraqi "government" for showing that security is non-existent in that hellhole of a nation, too bad. Now the "democratic government" of Iraq is making threats about taking legal action against journalists who write things it doesn't like.