Reply #76: This is not how JOURNALISM works. But it's exactly how Judith Miller sold

[stickdog]

the Iraq War by presenting Chalabi's lies as fact, though.

It's EXACTLY how Plame was outed by Novak, though.

These stories are obviously PLANTED. Otherwise, where are the counter-reactions of the family members, employers, coworkers, mosque leaders and administrators of these places in question?

Specifically concerning the anonymous guy who called the BBC to say that Khan often went to military camps in Afghanistan, what does Khan's visa history say about that? What does his family say? What do his employers say?

"Somebody who claimed to be and acquaintance of Khan said he heard something from some other unnamed source" is NOT worthy of a story without SOME sort of independent confirmation.