NYT Osama bin Laden Investigation Shines a Light on Pakistani Reporter
Long before Seymour Hersh, there was a May 12, 2011 item by Aamir Latif.
Philip Balboni, chief executive of website GlobalPost, tells Jonathan Mahler that he did not have the resources to properly publicize the May 12, 2011 item “Bin Laden Raid: Neighbors Say Pakistan Knew.” But thanks to Mahler’s feature in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine about the media and book narratives surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden, a great deal of attention is now going to be focused on that item.
The biggest revelation with regards to this aspect of Mahler’s footwork is that the GlobalPost dispatch was filed by Aamir Latif (pictured), a veteran reporter who chose to keep his name and byline off the article:
Balboni put me in touch with Latif, a 41-year-old Pakistani journalist.
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