US forces holding Fallujah correspondent: Arabic TV channel

[Barrett808]

DUBAI (AFP) - US forces in the flashpoint Iraqi town of Fallujah are holding a correspondent for the Arabic television station Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based channel said.

Fallujah resident Abdel Kader Al-Saadi was picked up on Thursday in the battle-torn city where US troops have been battling Iraqi insurgents, the station said in a statement late Tuesday.

The US army command had informed the mainly Saudi-financed channel that the correspondent "has been arrested with a large number of residents" and would be freed "as soon as possible".

"Al-Arabiya deplores the detention, for the fifth day running, of its correspondent," and "calls on all human rights organisation. to guarantee his safety," the TV station said in its statement.

Rebels and residents in Fallujah were holed up Tuesday in the south of the city where US-led forces hunted final pockets of resistance.

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[0rganism]

1. The correspondent is lucky he wasn't shot on sight

I feel for the civilian press of any nationality covering Falluja. This is not exactly a "cushy" assignment. After a week of this shitstorm, I'd certainly be ready to cover local human interest "feelgood" stories for the rest of my career.

[VegasWolf]

2. Bet all of his film disappeared.

[maddezmom]

3. so the freedom * talks about doesn't include the press???

What a f'ing surprise. Seems like Iraq is becoming more and more Americanized everyday. :mad:

[jmcgowanjm]

4. Untermenschen

“There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military
gang is blind to. It has its ’finger men’ to point out enemies,
its ‘muscle men’ to destroy enemies, its ‘brain guys’ to plan
war preparations, and a ‘Big Boss, Supra-
nationalistic Capitalism. It may seem odd for me a military
man, to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me
to do so. I spent thirty-five years and four months in active
service as a member of our country’s most agile military
force, the Marine Corps.

Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, as quoted in Money, December 1951.

Sickened by the deterioration of my Marine Corps - indeed
what looks to be the destruction of anything resembling
honor and fidelity - I must now relegate myself to the past
Corps, where we at least had a semblance of our duties
to ourselves and to our country. No more will I consider myself
a part of today’s elite organization that began in Tun Tavern
in 1775. I cannot lend my name to the sycophantic,
mindless robots that now fill out our ranks. Marines who kill
for fun. Who kill without question. Who kill for their false
God, George Bush.

Our Corps and history will damn
you. You will know everlasting shame.

And a final warning to young Marines – should you fire
on American civilians in some future domestic insanity, you
will be destroyed by your own kind – that’s right kids –
your parents in the “Old Corps” will see to it that the likes of
you will never plague the earth again.

Southeast Asia News
14th November 2004

[AlinPA]

5. Teachin' 'em summa thet thur Democracy, republiKKKan style.

[DELUSIONAL]

6. That's a good one -- republiKKKlan -- add a l after the KKK

That's the way to spell their new party name!!!