IRAQ CORRECTION

I posted below about an Iraqi journalist who claimed that 11 member of his family had been murdered. He has recanted.


Iraqi journalist recants claim that 11 family members were killed
By Mohammed al Dulaimy, Jenan Hussein and Leila Fadel | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Friday, November 30, 2007

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi journalist who'd claimed Monday that gunmen had killed 11 family members in Baghdad recanted Friday, saying there'd been no massacre and that the only person who'd been killed was a brother-in-law who died between Kut in the south and Baghdad.

Dhia al Kawazz, who publishes a Web site from Amman, Jordan, said his initial claim — which was widely reported, including by McClatchy — was based on false information. Family members said he'd lied to get his family refugee status in Jordan.