US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brian Randell <Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk>
Date: January 9, 2006 9:58:07 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
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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