Here's one reply I got back from my inquiries:
The same quote is on MANY sources, ... - including the News Telegraph in the UK:
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.j ... nean22.xml
The confusion might come from the fact that this quote is from last year, when the false dates were first discovered, as shown by this quote from last August:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411784
rather than from the time of the recent developments in the case.
I would be VERY interested to hear, however, if this information came through Joe Meert. I have had some dealings with him in my discussion group, and as soon as I read his name in your posting, my alarm bells immediately went off; he is a man who never allows the truth to get in the way in his pursuit of Creationist-bashing.