US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist

[Benbow]

Your tax dollars at work, suppressing the truth.

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.

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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

Ali Fadhil is incredibly brave - he made a series of short films of Fallujah, after the US flattened it, shown in the UK for Channel 4.

I passionately hope and believe that the American administration and senior military will fry in Hell for eternity for what they have done to Iraq and the Iraqis.

[dutchdemocrat]

1. I have that footage from Fallujah here.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/fallujah/new1/

[Sparkman]

2. This is Fascism. No rights, life threatening police/military "attacks"...

upon civilians with no warrant. THe Fallujah coverage must be suppressed and this attack is also being used to serve as an warning to future JOURNALIST and NEWS activity. The Fascists in Washington and their appologists NEVER decry these types of free speech abridgment by military and secret police violence. Instead, we see the Fascists DEFENDING oppresive violence against the press with pathetic excuses and rationalizations. Be afraid for our liberties and the sanity of those doing the policing and soldiering, for the Fascists will turn good citizens into abusive tyrants. Bombing teen agers today in Iraq, and the war marches on.

[madrchsod]

3. this is one of the reasons this man quit writing

http://baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com/
Treasure of Baghdad

after reading his account you will see it is very dangerous to be out spoken in iraq..