Dahr Jamail's "Blackwater" Fever

Jules Crittendon calls out the “moron reporters [who] not only don’t know their subject, they apparently don’t know how to use Google,” for calling a form of malaria causing dark brown urine “Blackwater…named after Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. mercenary company operating in Iraq.” Actually, it's been known by that name since the 1800's. Instapundit wonders if “they [are] that stupid – or do they think that you are?”

They are neither morons or stupid. As their article is bylined, “Ali, our correspondent in Baghdad, works in close collaboration with Dahr Jamail, our U.S.-based specialist writer on Iraq who has reported extensively from Iraq and the Middle East.”

Dahr Jamail is an accomplished propagandist and fabulist on Iraq. Denis Keohane, of Obiter Dictum blog, has closely followed Dahr Jamail’s fabled career, or more properly a career of fables.

Jamail, with a longstanding record of pushing claims of widespread American atrocities…Almost two years ago Dahr Jamail was the most effective promoter of the fraudulent Jesse MacBeth video that charged the U.S. Army Rangers with mass executions of civilians that never happened.

“Blackwater” articles, brown discharges, are Dahr Jamail’s trademark.