US rejects media concerns about Iraq detentions

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US rejects media concerns about Iraq detentions
25 Aug 2005 19:42:05 GMT

Source: Reuters

(Updates with US, Iraqi government comment, previous LONDON)

By Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. military rejected on Thursday concerns aired by Reuters and other media organisations in Iraq about its detention of journalists, saying it would not consider the special nature of their work in reporting conflict.

International media rights groups have joined Reuters in seeking an urgent explanation for the arrest of a cameraman working for the news agency, who has been held incommunicado for more than two weeks and is now in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari and cabinet spokesman Laith Kubba said the government would look into the matter.

Reporters working for media including U.S. television network CBS and Agence France-Presse have been held for months. Other news organisations have also complained about arrests.


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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25294938.htm

[Lerkfish]

1. I hope for the release of ALL detainees there....but

I wonder if this is a misdirected karma thingy: AFAIK, Reuters has been an obedient propaganda slave to the neocons for a while, now. Will they reevaluate that relationship?

regardless, I wish ALL detainees should be released to an impartial authority. I do not trust the US junta of either fair treatment nor timely release.

[rodeodance]

2. there was just another thread on DU about this Zebari being in Italy sayin

y that he hopes the US does not pull out and Iraq is wathching the anti-war protests.


Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari and cabinet spokesman Laith Kubba said the government would look into the matter.

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3. So we don't target journalists?

yeah right.

[Dover]

4. So are they being used as hostages by Bushco to negotiate for

the kind of news they'd like to see in print or broadcasts?

I think so.