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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

‘military intelligence’ has Iraq reporter facing terror charge


Alt Tv/Fleet FM Breakfast News Comment
‘military intelligence’ has Iraq reporter facing terror charge
The US military says it will recommend criminal charges against an Associated Press photographer detained in 2006 on suspicion of helping Iraqi insurgents. The Pentagon says additional evidence has come to light proving Bilal Hussein is a "terrorist media operative" who infiltrated the news agency. The case will be passed to Iraqi judges who will decide if he should be tried. AP says its own investigation has found no evidence that he was anything but an Iraqi journalist working in a war zone. The agency's lawyers say they have been denied access to Mr Hussein and the evidence against him, making it impossible to build a defence. AP's president and chief executive officer Tom Curley told the BBC he believed the US military simply wished to keep Mr Hussein in jail as long as possible. He said the US did not want news coming out of Anbar province, which he called an "information black hole". Would this be the same military intelligence that originally suggested Saddam had weapons of mass destruction in the first place? Isn’t it a wee bit suspicious that at the same time this award winning Iraqi journalist is bringing information out of Anbar province the American’s are doing all they can to shut him up? The American military are working under time constraints as the law obliges them to release Bilal Hussein by December 12th unless legal proceedings are started again, which surprise, surprise the Americans are trying to do with this new ‘military intelligence’.

Yawn. Sure.


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