Con Coughlin

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Con Coughlin is the executive foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph.[1]. Coughlin is best known for recieving stories directly from MI6, his relationship with the British intelligence Services was exposed after a legal writ was served against The Telegraph for publishing a suggestion that Colonel Gadafy's son was involved in a fraud[2]. Coughlin also printed a story linking Saddam Hussein with Al-Qaeda and he has published at least 44 articles on Iran using "unnamed and untraceable sources"[3][4].

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References

  1. Con Coughlin, Telegraph blogs, accessed 7 August 2008.
  2. Britain's security services and journalists: the secret story, by David Leigh, British Journalism Review Vol. 11, No. 2, 2000, pages 21-26.
  3. Does this link Saddam to 9/11? A document discovered by Iraq's interim government details a meeting between the man behind the September 11 attacks and Abu Nidal, the Palestinian terrorist, at his Baghdad training camp. CON COUGHLIN reports, Sunday Telegraph, 14 December 2003, p 21.
  4. CampaignIran.org, Press Watchdog slammed by 'Dont Attack Iran' Campaigners, CASMI, Accessed 13-June-2009