Police gave few details of Jackson's background on Wednesday, identifying him only as a Baltimore resident and military veteran.
And, as another reader, Stephen Barrett, has pointed out, one of those I quoted in my column, Ed Marston – identifying him only as a Times reader — is a well-known journalist in the Rocky Mountain area.
The authorities in Germany said Monday that they had arrested a man, identifying him only by the initial "M," who had acted as the accountant for a band of Somali pirates who hijacked a German oil tanker three years ago.
"Strange Justice," by Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, reports that, to rebut Ms. Hill's success taking a polygraph, Senator Alan Simpson, a Bush buddy, read a statement into the record from Mr. Thompson, identifying him only as a former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, not as a member of the Thomas team.
"The armed group stopped his car, forced the driver out and drove away in an unknown direction," the ministry said at the time, without elaborating and identifying him only as T.S. Salopek is the first foreigner to be abducted and threatened with death by militants in Egypt since the Islamist insurgency broke out after the army's ousting of president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
First Kristof, on May 6, 2003, and then Pincus, on June 12th, published versions of Wilson's story, identifying him only as a retired Ambassador; on June 19th, the New Republic published online a story in which an unnamed Ambassador "knew the Niger story was a flat-out lie".
