AP Shocked by Cameraman's Further Detainment for 'Security' Reasons

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Associated Press television cameraman who was detained by U.S. and Iraqi forces in early June was ordered held for at least six more months Tuesday for "imperative reasons of security," the U.S. military said.

The decision came as a surprise to the AP, which had earlier been led to believe that the cameraman, Ahmed Nouri Raziak, was likely to be released because of lack of any evidence against him.

Raziak, 38, who has worked for AP Television News since 2003, was detained by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers at his home in Tikrit on June 4. He was transferred last month to the U.S. military's detention facility at Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport.

The AP has been in regular contact with U.S. military officials about his case. In notifying the AP that Raziak would continue to be held, the military provided no details about any allegations against him.

Read more: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003825789

[RufusTFirefly]

1. "the military provided no details about any allegations against him."

Pish tosh! This might've been considered an abomination back when habeas corpus (born 1305. died 2001) was taken seriously. But that stuff is just soooo 20th century.

[PSPS]

2. AP is shocked? They've been helping perpetuate this crime for seven years.

[mwb970]

13. That's the first thing I thought of!

It seems disingenuous for AP, which has been a cheerleader for all things bush for years and years, to complain so bitterly when the consequences of the policies they dishonestly advocated come back to bite them in the butt.

Welcome to Bushtopia, AP.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. So it's interesting to sit here and watch them shrivel in shock over this.

They stopped being news media a while back. So why do they expect special treatment now? Maybe they're just figuring out that they signed a deal with the devil?

[Peace Patriot]

3. Maybe the Associated Pukes will wake up and stop being so....well...

...pukish.

When hell freezes over, I know--and all of them are in fucking indefinite detention without charge for the terrorist activity of daring to publish the Junta's handouts. Then maybe they'll WAKE UP!

[Kolesar]

11. Do journalists &company have a union?

I know that newspaper line employees have a union. My brother lost his job in a lockout.

[Speck Tater]

4. Is that the same AP that runs the Bush/McCain cheerleading squad? NT

[99th_Monkey]

5. Message to Journalists everywhere: "Only Pentagon ass-lickers need apply"

to be "journalists" covering the war zone.

All others will be considered "terrorist suspects" and are subject to being "detained" indefinitely.

[1monster]

6. He must have seen something that scares the military silly...

What did he witness that the Admin and the brass don't want us to see?

[crickets]

8. What did he film that the Admin and the brass don't want us to see?

Poor man.

[ColonelTom]

21. Well, that and all the torture he's almost certainly suffered. n/t

[DCKit]

7. Sounds like Beavis and Butthead jumped straight into torture with this one.

Now they've got to hold him long enough for him to "forget" what they did. Healing time, psychotherapy, plastic surgery... God knows. Bet no one's allowed to see him either.

We're going to have to release all the non-violent offenders if we're going to have enough prison space for the war criminal psychopaths stationed overseas - and those at the WH, of course.

I am so ashamed.

[Solly Mack]

9. They're holding him because they can

and they can because no one is offering up any serious challenges to the abuses and crimes being carried out on the orders of the Bush government.

[Sanity Claws]

10. At least six more months -- January 2009

When Bush is gone ---- hmmm. What's the connection?

[Faith No More]

15. BUSH IS NEVER GOING TO BE GONE!!! DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND!!

We are just two clicks away from Marshal Law in this country. THERE WILL BE NO ELECTION!!! After we attack Iran and the full effect of the floods in the midwest drive the price of food beyond the reach of the average person, gas continues to go up and the jobless rate continues to climb, the United States as we know it is GONE!!! Do you honestly think these assholes have been giving themselves all this power just so they can turn the White House over to Obama? It's not going to happen people, open your eyes!!!

[tanyev]

16. Martial Law, Marshall Plan, Marshal Dillon.

[mikeytherat]

17. "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" - Jan Brady

mikey_the_rat

[bathandbeyond]

18. I can't believe I'm beginning to agree with you.

I never thought I would say this, but for the first time in my 55 years of life I think you may be on to something. Who would have ever thought that habeas corpus would become toilet paper for this administration?
Who would have ever thought that we could attack a sovereign nation based on speculation and innuendo? Now, with the global economy tanking who knows what might happen next? These evil bastards scare me. By the way, welcome to DU from a fellow newby.

[beezlebum]

27. i'm not

welcome to DU to you both. and on that note, i strongly disagree with you both.

The bush administration is not going to become a full blown dictatorship.
yes habeas corpus is null and void. yes the constitution has been used as toilet paper. yes war and torture have become staples of american policy. yes the global economy is tanking. yes the whispers of "war with iran before * leaves office" have become drum beats.

but this kind of fear is exactly what they want. they want us to be afraid and draw paranoid conclusions and be distracted.

bushco was about profit, changing the climate among americans, convincing them that their economic freedom didn't matter, nor did their civil liberties, dividing and distracting with wedge issues while they set the stage for their grand middle eastern takeover, and if anyone got or gets in their way, well, now they can make those little roadblocks disappear and continue on their merry way. now cheney et al can retire to luxurious dubai.

i ask again- what would be the point of unleashing an open dictatorship when the dog and pony show is so effective? why openly hijack when you the whole plane including the cockpit convinced you're the pilot? when you have scapegoats and red herrings and strawmen? and you've got enough of a populace convinced that it was all about some greater good? and retirement to look forward to?

you don't need to be dictator to have extreme amounts of power- this cabal were probably already more powerful than most dictators anyway. these people HAD absolute power as a partnership and probably aren't interested in being a one man show. that would disappoint their minions, it would cause too much disillusion and then they wouldn't be able to get away with as much.

i remain convinced that W never really wanted the "presidency." he treated the office as as corporation, and took advantage of that whole "leader of teh free world" status to make more money and make the powerful more powerful and the rich more rich and the poor and middle class more poor and less middle class.

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. of course we understand.....all too clearly

More and more of us having been saying this over the past year.
Bush the puppet may go.
The real rulers will not budge. McCain the even dumber puppet has already said Cheney will stay in the Government.
McCain will be given the election, one way or another.
And you are correct...this is why the price of gas and food and everything is allowed to go sky high.
We are going to be poor, cold and hungry when they turn the screws.
There will be another "terrorist" attack, if Obama's lead looks too big.

I have NO trust in this cabal.
None.
And Obama is a fool if he thinks he can "fix the Constitution later".

[davekriss]

30. I don't think so

Bush will go right after the next military-industrialist-security complex enabler is selected via election fraud for the White House. The mission/agenda of government to serve the interests of that complex will continue unscathed.

[ColonelTom]

20. Bingo. n/t

[LVjinx]

12. They might not be so shocked if they'd actually been doing any, I don't know, reporting?

[SpiralHawk]

14. "Hey, we just did a big story on which Presidential candidate pet lovers prefer." - AP

"So we've been to busy to do anything about the war, or the Sex Crims and Torture trickling down from the Bush White House. Ok, time to get back to the pet lovers story."

- AP

[paparush]

22. The camerman's name is Ahmed...he'll be lucky to ever see the light of day again..

Poor guy.

[ellie]

23. Where are all the apologists?

The ones that say, "I don't do anything wrong so I don't need to worry?" Dumb asses.

[Love Bug]

24. There is an old saying:

"If you lie down with dogs, you rise up with fleas."

Did the M$M think they would be immune to the fascist intentions of this administration? Idiots.

[LynnTheDem]

25. Takes one to know one.

--Saddam arbitrarily arrested Iraqis; tortured Iraqis;
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.html

So does bush.

[Ian David]

26. Well, when he was arrested, he was innocent. But now...

... after a few years of being tortured by the United States Government, he harbors these misplaced feelings of anger and resentment towards America, which have turned him into a terrorist.

At least, that's according to the information they tortured out of the guy in the cell next to him.

[CubicleGuy]

29. Evidence?

We don't need no steenking evidence!