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01-11-2006, 08:31 AM
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.
The director of the film, Callum Macrae, said yesterday: "The timing and nature of this raid is extremely disturbing. It is only a few days since we first approached the US authorities and told them Ali was doing this investigation, and asked them then to grant him an interview about our findings.
"We need a convincing assurance from the American authorities that this terrifying experience was not harassment and a crude attempt to discourage Ali's investigation."
Dr Fadhil was asleep with his wife, their three-year-old daughter, Sarah, and seven-month-old son, Adam, when the troops forced their way in.
"They fired into the bedroom where we were sleeping, then three soldiers came in. They rolled me on to the floor and tied my hands. When I tried to ask them what they were looking for they just told me to shut up," he said.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1682208,00.html
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Medical Condition Suspected at First In Journalist's Fall
Hours Elapsed Before It Was Evident Rosenbaum Had Been Beaten, Robbed
By Del Quentin Wilber and Debbi Wilgoren
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 10, 2006; Page B02
D.C. police and emergency workers initially believed that David E. Rosenbaum had a stroke or seizure when they found the longtime journalist on a sidewalk in Northwest Washington on Friday night. Several hours elapsed before they realized he apparently had been beaten and robbed, authorities said yesterday.
The confusion cost police time that could have been spent combing the neighborhood for robbery suspects. It was not until Rosenbaum, a retired New York Times reporter and editor, was evaluated at Howard University Hospital that the authorities viewed him as a crime victim.
Jerry Pritchett, a neighborhood resident, found Rosenbaum on the sidewalk about 9:30 p.m. Pritchett yelled for his wife, Claude, to call 911 for an ambulance. The Pritchetts and police and emergency workers noted that Rosenbaum had on his wedding band and his watch. A portable radio headset lay next to him. The Pritchetts did not know Rosenbaum, and he had no identification. Police said Rosenbaum's wallet was taken.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901245.html
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Robbery my ass, it was made to look that way. This is a very safe area of DC. a reporter he had been working with on the abronoff case was also severely beaten outside of her house with no valuables taken. The idiots got a wallet this time.
And finally one more war crime to add to the list of many...
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In the latest legal maneuvers, David Keogh, a 49-year-old former government communications officer, and Leo O'Connor, a 42-year-old parliamentary researcher, both face charges under the Official Secrets Act. They were indicted last November.
Mr. Keogh is accused on two counts under the Official Secrets Act. One charge is that he passed a memo to Mr. O'Connor between April 16, 2004 and May 29, 2004.
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The document, leaked to Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid, was described by the newspaper as a transcript of a conversation in the White House on April 16, 2004, in which Mr. Blair dissuaded President Bush from bombing Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar, a close western ally.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/international/europe/10cnd-jazeera.html
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Murdering jouranlists... what a coward.
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.
The director of the film, Callum Macrae, said yesterday: "The timing and nature of this raid is extremely disturbing. It is only a few days since we first approached the US authorities and told them Ali was doing this investigation, and asked them then to grant him an interview about our findings.
"We need a convincing assurance from the American authorities that this terrifying experience was not harassment and a crude attempt to discourage Ali's investigation."
Dr Fadhil was asleep with his wife, their three-year-old daughter, Sarah, and seven-month-old son, Adam, when the troops forced their way in.
"They fired into the bedroom where we were sleeping, then three soldiers came in. They rolled me on to the floor and tied my hands. When I tried to ask them what they were looking for they just told me to shut up," he said.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1682208,00.html
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Medical Condition Suspected at First In Journalist's Fall
Hours Elapsed Before It Was Evident Rosenbaum Had Been Beaten, Robbed
By Del Quentin Wilber and Debbi Wilgoren
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 10, 2006; Page B02
D.C. police and emergency workers initially believed that David E. Rosenbaum had a stroke or seizure when they found the longtime journalist on a sidewalk in Northwest Washington on Friday night. Several hours elapsed before they realized he apparently had been beaten and robbed, authorities said yesterday.
The confusion cost police time that could have been spent combing the neighborhood for robbery suspects. It was not until Rosenbaum, a retired New York Times reporter and editor, was evaluated at Howard University Hospital that the authorities viewed him as a crime victim.
Jerry Pritchett, a neighborhood resident, found Rosenbaum on the sidewalk about 9:30 p.m. Pritchett yelled for his wife, Claude, to call 911 for an ambulance. The Pritchetts and police and emergency workers noted that Rosenbaum had on his wedding band and his watch. A portable radio headset lay next to him. The Pritchetts did not know Rosenbaum, and he had no identification. Police said Rosenbaum's wallet was taken.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901245.html
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Robbery my ass, it was made to look that way. This is a very safe area of DC. a reporter he had been working with on the abronoff case was also severely beaten outside of her house with no valuables taken. The idiots got a wallet this time.
And finally one more war crime to add to the list of many...
++++++++++++++++++++
...
In the latest legal maneuvers, David Keogh, a 49-year-old former government communications officer, and Leo O'Connor, a 42-year-old parliamentary researcher, both face charges under the Official Secrets Act. They were indicted last November.
Mr. Keogh is accused on two counts under the Official Secrets Act. One charge is that he passed a memo to Mr. O'Connor between April 16, 2004 and May 29, 2004.
...
The document, leaked to Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid, was described by the newspaper as a transcript of a conversation in the White House on April 16, 2004, in which Mr. Blair dissuaded President Bush from bombing Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar, a close western ally.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/international/europe/10cnd-jazeera.html
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Murdering jouranlists... what a coward.