US Plans Case Against AP Photographer

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

US Plans Case Against AP Photographer

Monday November 19, 2007 9:16 PM

By BRIAN MURPHY

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. military plans to seek a
criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning
Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose
what evidence or accusations would be presented.

An AP attorney on Monday strongly protested the decision,
calling the U.S. military plans a “sham of due process.”
The journalist, Bilal Hussein, has already been imprisoned
without charges for more than 19 months.

A public affairs officer notified the AP on Sunday that
the military intends to submit a written complaint against
Hussein that would bring the case into the Iraqi justice
system as early as Nov. 29. Under Iraqi codes, an
investigative magistrate will decide whether there are
grounds to try Hussein, 36, who was seized in the western
Iraqi city of Ramadi on April 12, 2006.

Dave Tomlin, associate general counsel for the AP, said
the defense for Hussein is being forced to work “totally
in the dark.”

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7088934,00.html

[God23]

1. What a shining example of freedom....

Not.

[Robbien]

2. The defense walks into court not even knowing what the charges will be

and have to immediately put up a defense of their client based on what they hear in court that day.

How is this justice? What if the military states in court that the defense should not be allowed to even hear the charges because of "state secrets"?

[Lord Wortherington]

3. Public affairs read: Psychological Operations

[mainer]

4. They hate us for our freedoms

"They" being the Pentagon.

[MADem]

5. Well, whaddaya want? Look at the last name, after all!!!

Let the Wheel of Justice spin,

Bring the guilty bastard in!!

Of COURSE he's guilty in BushCo World!!!

[rockybelt]

6. I

wonder what the hell he took a picture of? Whatever it was it must be damning and he must have the negative.

[HuffleClaw]

7. a pulitzer prize winning journalist being crucified for daring to show the truth

that is it in a nutshell. 'case' my foot.

[ohio2007]

11. pulitzer prize for pix. I kinda understand why the US wants to talk to him about 2005 stories

not the best of sourcse but from wikipedia;


The Jamil Hussein controversy refers to an allegation by conservative bloggers, including Michelle Malkin, that a massacre the Associated Press reported had never happened, and that their source, Jamil Hussein, did not exist.

The AP reported that four mosques in the Hurriya neighborhood of Baghdad had been 'burned and blew up' and that six Sunnis had been dragged out of prayers and burnt alive.<1> They attributed this claim to "Jamil Hussein", saying he was a captain in the Iraqi police.

The Multi-National Force - Iraq claimed that an "an Iraqi Army patrol investigating the area found only one mosque had been burned in the neighborhood" and "was also unable to confirm media reports that six Sunni civilians were allegedly dragged out of Friday prayers and burned to death."<2>.

Malkin has apologised for denying Capt. Husseins existence<3> but contests AP claims of destroyed mosques and civilians burned alive. Malkin visited Iraq and determined that several of the mosques reported destroyed were still intact. She further noted that the AP's only corroborating witness has recanted and that no-one since has found any evidence of the claim about people being burned alive.<4>



snip

Was Hussein reliable as sole source for earliest version of this story?


snip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamil_Hussein_controversy#Jamil_Hussein

Did his undisclosed sources put him up to spinning their truth?

[badgervan]

12. Looks Like....

... your friendly college wingers have been busy on Wikipedia. Wonder just how historically challenged that site is these days.

[ohio2007]

15. from an Italian website

wikipedia is hacked by "everybody" but history is there if you dig Google


The pic was pinched from this article where credit given to the AP stringer Bilal Hussein ;


Santoro ucciso. La compagna: l'ho riconosciuto

......

Suleiman Yammin. Altra certezza: a scattare le foto è stato il fotoreporter iracheno,
Bilal Hussein,
lo stesso fra l'altro che mercoledì dichiarò di aver

www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Esteri/2004/12_Dicembre/16/santoro.shtml

scroll down the link and check out Bilal's photo gallery



or if you prefer, you can use the phrase I believe they call

.....Fake ..but accurate.... ? ;)



(Ap/Bilal Hussein)

http://www.corriere.it/av/galleria.html?2004/dicembre/rapito&1



ciao





...Gee, I wonder what ever happened to his Fallujah, class of '04, posse ?
where are they now?


lol

eom

[superconnected]

8. Imprisoned without charges for 19 months, and the U.S. is going

to prosecute but refuse to say why.

Yep, I'm afraid. The US constitution has been taken over by American Terrorists.

[AndyTiedye]

9. They Already Brought Back the Crusades and the Inquisition, Now the Star Chamber

[otherlander]

10. Good luck, Bilal.

I don't know what he did, but it sounds like he must have tried to show the world something important enough to hide.

[Judi Lynn]

13. We haven't heard from Reporters Without Borders on this case, or any of the other many, many cases

of obvious _Bush administration abuse of journalists. Why is that?

I hope they're not letting the fact they are funded by the U.S. get in the road of their duty.

[gratuitous]

14. Kangaroo courts and secret evidence

I thought we were supposed to be against that in the United States. But if you object to this travesty, you're just a "Bush hater," shrill and hysterical.

[Progressive Friend]

16. So much for "freedom of the press" and "freedom of speech"