[IP] US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist
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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 9, 2006 9:58:07 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist
Dave:
For IP if you wish.
A front page story here, in the (UK) Guardian, is the seizing by US
troops in Iraq of one of the Guardian's own journalists and his video
tapes - a journalist who just happened to be working on a story for
the Guardian and Channel 4 television of misappropriation of funds by
US and British forces.
Hardly a good way of getting sympathetic newspaper and TV coverage!
Cheers
Brian Randell
US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist
Monday January 9, 2006
The Guardian
American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the
home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4,
firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife
and children.
Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association
young journalist of the year award, was hooded and taken for
questioning. He was released hours later.
Dr Fadhil is working with Guardian Films on an investigation for
Channel 4's Dispatches programme into claims that tens of millions
of dollars worth of Iraqi funds held by the Americans and British
have been misused or misappropriated.
The troops told Dr Fadhil that they were looking for an Iraqi
insurgent and seized video tapes he had shot for the programme.
These have not yet been returned.
....
Full story at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1682246,00.html
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