{"id":918,"date":"2004-06-19T02:40:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T07:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/ap-has-saddam-as-9-11-mastermind\/"},"modified":"2004-06-19T02:40:37","modified_gmt":"2004-06-19T07:40:37","slug":"ap-has-saddam-as-9-11-mastermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/ap-has-saddam-as-9-11-mastermind\/","title":{"rendered":"ap has saddam as 9-11 mastermind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>update<\/strong> (05:20):  my mistake.  i got the evildoers confused.  the image is khalid shaikh mohammed.  the first alternative source i found for the image had it mis-identified.  i still think the photo needs a name in the caption.  this is what i get for reading the wires and posting on the blog while pushing a deadline \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>next to the banner headline,  &#8220;9\/11 Plot Reportedly Hatched in 1996&#8221; and &#8220;Mastermind Says He Pitched Plot That Culminated in 9\/11 Attacks to Osama Bin Laden in 1996, &#8221; abc news is running a photo of what appears to be saddam hussein.<\/p>\n<p>see it yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040618_2063.html\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> &#8211; at least until it&#8217;s corrected or pulled,  in which case you can see a screen capture here:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"TN_APSaddam9-11.PNG\" src=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/images\/TN_APSaddam9-11.PNG\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i have to assume this is an associated press issue, since it&#8217;s an ap photo and an ap story, but really&#8230; you&#8217;d think someone would catch this, particularly during the week that the question about the iraq-al qaida connection is so prominent in the news.  in any case, it&#8217;s just a little detail we managed to catch and put on the record for you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>update (05:20): my mistake. i got the evildoers confused. the image is khalid shaikh mohammed. the first alternative source i found for the image had it mis-identified. i still think the photo needs a name in the caption. this is what i get for reading the wires and posting on the blog while pushing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}