Ahmad al Qloushi, a seventeen year old republican activist, has apparently accused his professor of misconduct some time ago. Just a snippet I found out about on left2right. It was some time ago, but when googling, it seems to me noone else has noticed this about his account:
"Most of all we remember our one-week-old baby cousin who died while the Iraqi invaders were stealing incubators from hospitals to sell them for profit"
This is strange, because the incubators story has been discredited many times.
Snopes, anyone?
Does this hurt Ahmad's reliability? It is conceivable that he lost a cousin, that he didn't know the story was fake, even that he and possibly his family genuinely believed that it happened this way.
But I've seen enough teacher/student conflicts in my life (who hasn't?) to know that it's worth the time to wait and observe a bit before choosing sides. I don't think they tell everything on either side.
(Actually, Professor John Woolcock has said very little, and nothing to the media, as I can find.)
Posted by vintermann at January 11, 2005 12:53 PM