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posting under this amina since 2006.me reading his apology today, you know, he's a fiction writer, a wannabe fiction writer perhaps with a pension for middle eastern issue. what have you learned about him? by the way, what have you also learned about the photo? who is this woman? who is she? >> well, let's start with that. as the story began to unravel early last week, "the wall street journal" and other news organizations started reporting that there was this woman in london, a croatian woman whose ex-husband saw the photo on a website after amina had been quote, unquote, kidnapped. he alerted amina and she started contacting news organizations saying take my face off of websites. that's me. >> zero connection to this whole story. >> zero connection. possibly -- from what we can tell, tom mcmaster is originally from the atlanta area. he's currently studying at the university of edinburgh. over the last five years he was interested in doing this online experiment, trying to push the boundaries between truth and fiction.

. >> let me get into the situation with the syrian alleged lesbian blogger, amina. a role in publicizing amina, and of course she turned out to be an american man living in scotland. were you suspicious because you yourself were perpetrating this kind of scam? >> at first, i was suspicious because the way he was coming in on my site, he was coming in from an ip in scotlandnd. i asked him or asked her at the time -- >> an ip, a web address, okay. >> her web address was coming in from scotland. i asked her at the time, i said, you know, i'd you to report. she was a fantastic writer, an incredible writer. and it sounded like an important story. i said but your ip address says you're coming in from scotland. i got that explained it was a proxy so the security people didn't get it. and i've dealt with that before where people were actually coming from proxies, from egypt or some other places where they were coming into the site through -- >> let me ask you this final question, because a lot of people think in some ways, beau cases, yours and tom mcmaster, the alleged syr

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relatives of amina say she was taken into a car yesterday by syrian agents.me, and now her fans on twitter and facebook are demanding her release. >>> casey anthony's capital murder trial continues in florida. a crime scene technician testified about a smell coming from casey's car trunk where the prosecutors allege she put her 2-year-old's daughter's body. prosecutors say that the odor is identifiable as human decomposition, but the defense says that it was a bag of trash in the florida heat created that odor. >>> and now pictures coming out of chile is where a volcano has been shooting smoke and ash six miles into the ground. it is grounding flights in that country and in neighboring argentina, and as you can see, there was some lightning there all produced by that volcano. so far, 3,500 people have evacuated the area. >>> brave words or foolish? we will tell you about moammar gadhafi's comments after the heaviest nato air strikes to date against his compound. we will go globe trekking with michael holmes after this. >>> the situation in yemen grows worse b

>> we know there was no amina abdullah, there was no kidnapping, it was all a big fat hoax.the author was actually an american guy living in scotland. his tame is tom mcmaster. he made the whole thing up. he posted something, where he did not apologize, but what he said was, look, it was a fictional character, and he played an important part in bringing to attention some of the issues that gay women face in the arab world. he doesn't apologize for it, but it's made a lot of people really mad. >> so the other bloggers, especially those in the region, what are they all saying? as we know, as the story circulated, this alleged gay woman became such an icon within all of this. >> she really did. people are really annoyed. look at what people say i say shame on you. what you have done is harmed many and put us all in danger. >> someone else called daniel nasr said this, you took away my voice and many of who i know, and there is no positive side effect of the hoax. it did not bring attention to syria. it brought attention to a white fantasy. a lot of skritices too saying this who