4 journos arrested in Iraq

[dArKeR]

Baghdad - A group of French journalists were arrested in Iraq, a United States military spokesperson said on Wednesday.

The witnesses identified those detained as three Canal Plus employees and an Iraqi driver.

The spokesperson said: "I can confirm some French journalists were arrested and their media agency asked us to check it."

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1529439,00.html

[FreakinDJ]

1. Are they alive still

Or will this be another "Berg incident"

[Judi Lynn]

3. They could present an irresistable opportunity

for some hostile, dim-witted thugs who have been spoon-fed our lunatic fringe's psychotic hatred of the French created by the White House since they dared to criticise _Bush.

[maddezmom]

2. wonder if these were the journalist that reported Berg's killers arrested?

:shrug:

[FreakinDJ]

6. When was that reported and where

I haven't heard any thing about it

[maddezmom]

8. here is one link...AFP also had it yesterday

Zarqawi not one of 4 arrested
18/05/2004 18:39 - (SA)


Baghdad - Four people have been arrested over the beheading of US businessman Nicholas Berg, whose killing was shown earlier this month in a video on an al-Qaeda-linked website, a senior Iraqi source said on Tuesday.

US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the coalition's deputy director of military operations, told a Baghdad news conference that he had not been informed any arrests were made on Tuesday.

"We have no information from the coalition that any arrests were made today," he said.

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more:http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1528907,00.html

[htuttle]

4. Are they going to sodomize them with a broomstick, too?

:shrug:

[daleo]

5. Maybe go easy on them

Like the Reauters crew. Force them it lick their fingers after forcing them to insert them in you-know-where. You couldn't make this stuff up.

[Cronus Protagonist]

10. Think "The Screamer" would fit this situation?

[underpants]

7. Since they found out Michael Moore got 3 camera crews in there...

I think everyone is suspect now.

[maddezmom]

9. updated link: French TV crew detained for more than 24 hours in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Four members of a French television crew were released after being detained for more than 24 hours by US soldiers in the Iraqi capital, the group told AFP.


Iraqi police arrested the Canal Plus team, made up of two journalists, a cameraman and their Iraqi driver, as they filmed near a US checkpoint outside Baghdad Hotel in the centre of the capital.


They were handed over to US forces who interrogated them for several hours and kept them handcuffed, according to journalist Michel Despratx.


"They asked us why we were filming, what we wanted, and if we were spies," he said, adding the group was not mistreated.


Witnesses to their arrest said the group were filming in the Baghdad Hotel area even though large signs written in English and Arabic state that photography is strictly prohibited.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=10&u=/afp/20040519/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_france_detain_040519182442