Iranian-born LA filmmaker detained in Iraq by U.S. military

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Posted on Wed, Jul. 06, 2005
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Iranian-born LA filmmaker detained in Iraq by U.S. military
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JEREMIAH MARQUEZ
Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES - Cyrus Kar's family says his passion for a documentary he was making about an ancient Persian ruler brought him to Iraq in May. Potential bomb parts found inside the filmmaker's taxi have kept him there, locked in a U.S. military jail outside Baghdad.

Now relatives of the 44-year-old Iranian-American have sued the government to gain his freedom. They contend his detention tramples his constitutional rights, and that the FBI officials have cleared him of suspicion.

"I'm here to beg President Bush ... to release an innocent boy," Kar's aunt, Parvin Modarress, said at a news conference Wednesday to announce the filing of the lawsuit in Washington, D.C. "He went to Iraq to do his dream work, to make a documentary."

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