When Saddam was still in power, most of us journalists reporting in Iraq simply assumed it was impossible to get a straight story out of his officials. Now we know Saddam’s aides weren’t the only ones spinning the truth. It’s hard to know what to believe any more.

Liu's claim she doesn't know "what to believe" is also at odds with her discussion of torture. She describes at length the treatment meted out to Dr. Ammash's husband:

Being subjected to hours and hours of earsplitting American rap music laced with profanity and being doused with cold water, then forced to stand for hours in front of a freezing air-conditioner turned up full blast.

Incidentally, Liu interviewed Ammash's husband in 2004, before the Abu Ghraib revelations became public. I can find no evidence that she ever wrote about any of his claims until this article.

Also incidentally, there are now calls by some Iraqi government officials to rearrest Taha and Ammash, which raises the question of whether the original claim that the decision to release them was an "Iraqi-American decision" was accurate (or whether it was as accurate as the fiction that U.S. troops are now in Iraq at the "invitation" of the Iraqi government).