It's promotion time at the AP:

Kim Gamel, who issued stories using [Jamil] Hussein as a source on June 1, June 5 and twice on June 6, has now been promoted to the newly-created position of Baghdad News Editor.

Patrick Quinn, who wrote a story using Hussein as a source on May 30, has been promoted to the newly-created position of Assistant Chief of Middle East News.

Neither of these are approaches that seem likely to build credibility when reporting the news from Middle East war zones, but I guess, whether it's AP or Reuters, for the harried postmodern wire service, it's a case of whatever works.