Update on San Blas fishermen who were asea

Have you ever met a fisherman who didn't stretch the truth... a little? Still, a amazing story, even if the details are possibly a little legendary.

So what did happen? Geez, I never got to the end of the article. It made Longford's postings look concise ; )

Well it could have been a ruse to cover two murders. A sister ship may have taken them across the Pacific after they offed the other two shipmates.

Kathleen Carroll, senior VP and executive editor of Associated Press, says she is "satisfied with AP's reporting. Our South American bureau in Buenos Aires is in touch with events in San Blas and thruout the world."

"I have met with reporter Jamil "Jussein" Hernandez on several occasions, and have talked with him a number of times since then and he has been a reliable source of accurate information on a variety of events in San Blas."

Buenos Aires bureau? That's just around the corner from San Blas... NOT! Geeze, Los Angeles is a lot closer, and people speak Spanish there too. Oh well, it's a good story, no matter which version of it we chose to accept.

#2 it is too long an article. The article doesn't say what happened as it is unknown but it looks like the fisherman's version couldn't be true.

RichTX1, of all the people in the world, you are the last one I'd expect not to "get it". Jamil Hussein (or Mexicanized "Jussein") is the pen-name of the Baghdad stringer who recently wrote discredited Iraqi war stories that the Associated Press distributed as news without fact-checking, and now refuses to review. It's been a mini-scandal on the internet, but so far the story hasn't been able to compete with Anna Nicole or the Oscars for time on the Real News.

The words are A.P. V.P. Kathleen Carroll's, but I changed the locations to parody the media's crappy reporting in this hemisphere as well.

That's right folks, it's not true. But then neither were the stories of the San Blas pescaderos. Here's a link to a Times article, or just Google "Jamil Hussein".

Curses... foiled again! Ya got me!

I'd just looked at the original story from The Independent, and wouldn't have taken a Arabic name as particuarly odd in Mexico. Then again, a common Arabic name in Iraq isn't unusual either.

OOPS... hit the "send reply" button too soon. I figured out what REALLY put that boat so far offcourse.