Banking on polls that most of the folks in the US are convinced that the media are either too liberal or a bunch of whores for the republican party it seems that the 1600 Crew has decided to start (or continue) the intimdation of any journalist not spewing the party line...
An AFP photographer and a Reuters cameraman were detained in Fallujah for several hours by Iraqi police who said they were acting on orders from the US military.
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"Police told us they could not release us until American officers come here," Baz said by telephone from the Fallujah police station.
He said the police officers, none of whom would reveal their names, explained that the Americans were looking for someone who allegedly filmed the attack that caused the explosion of a vehicle apparently carrying ammunition.
Yeah, ok looking for information. The Army. Right. They could have just asked..."hey, dudes got any video of, like, explosions and stuff?"
Really, how stupid do they figure the average American is? I guess I really don't want to know the answer...as for the journalists as word gets around that the "Army" can yank you in at will, I guess it'll start to seem like the qWagmire that is is going so much better, don'tcha think?
posted by Jo Fish on 10.19.03 at 11:27 PM
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You're right. You don't want to know.
I was forced to give them a 3 (10 is best) yesterday at my little watcher site. Man that was hard to write.
