OH, JESUS, THIS IS PATHETIC:

Iraqi doctors in al-Anbar province warn of a new disease they call “Blackwater” that threatens the lives of thousands. The disease is named after Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. mercenary company operating in Iraq.

No, actually that’s just a kind of malaria that’s gone by that name since the 19th Century, as Jules Crittenden points out. Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, who reported this story, are either idiots or liars; the news service (IPS) that ran it is likewise. Are they that stupid — or do they think that you are?

UPDATE: More here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Heh: “This is just lame. Next time make up some fake documents or something.”

But hey, it’s not a complete failure of propaganda — some lefties have fallen for it.