Iraqi officers threaten reporters

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By Stephen Farrell
18aug04

IRAQI police have threatened to kill every journalist working in the holy city of Najaf, where US forces are locked in a tense stand-off with Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army.

After a series of veiled warnings to leave on Sunday, two marked police cars pulled up at dusk outside the Sea of Najaf hotel on the outskirts of town, where Arab and Western journalists are staying.

Ten uniformed policemen walked into the hotel and demanded that the al-Arabiya, Reuters and AP correspondents go with them.

Journalists told them they were not there, but the policemen found and arrested Ahmed al-Salahih, the al-Arabiya correspondent, who the day before had been given a special exemption from the earlier eviction orders.

More.......http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10478772%5E401,00.html

The Iraqis have their marching orders from the U.S. Kill all reporters in Najaf who refuse to leave.

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1. Saddam Lives!

Or at least Saddam v2.0. And what do you know, the BFEE is still backing him!

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2. Even the Telegraph called this "redolent" of Saddam-era repression n/t

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3. Surprised? Shouldn't be...

These guys are switching loyalties from street-to-street, depending on who holds the high ground.

Harassing journalists is just all in a day's work.

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4. Rummy just said he could understand why the Iraqis don't

resist the terrorist because after allthey are a sovereign nation.
God! I dislike that man.

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5. Don Rumsfeld, folks! Gotta love him! Next show at 10!

Isn't he a hoot? Not to mention a soulless ghoul?

Calling resistance fighters terrorists is absurd.

If armed resistance to an invader is 'terrorism', then this nation was founded in terrorism against the British.