Michael Yon seems to run into trouble with the Public Affairs folks pretty much every time he heads out. Invariably he ends up writing an angry diatribe about how they are out to get him and he calls them names like crazy monkeys. Just recently another day, another Yon problem with the rules. It would be nice if that was the only issue with him, but he has another problem with bad sources. He has been posting a bunch of "news" from a source of his named Mustafa Kazemi. Lots of juicy stuff and Mike has been pushing it out in bunches while he sits on the bench. The problem is Mustafa Kazemi is not who he claims to be and Mike has just taken his stuff and failed to do even the simplest due diligence.
This is not the first time Yon has used information from sources he knows nothing about. Last year he revealed far too much info about security procedures at one of our bases in Afghanistan, ostensibly in response to an email from one of our troops. I sent him a message from my dead buddy with some more supposedly juicy info and Mike published it without a bit of effort to verify anything at all about the source.
Here is a screen cap from Mike's source detailing his background, quite the impressive character eh?