[Active-l] (NEWS) US troops troops being used to arrest journalists in Iraq?

[Dara (R'ykandar Korra'ti)]

	I want to know what the hell is going on here. Seriously. I wrote in  
demanding to know, and also wrote my senators. I don't expect to get  
any response, but this is another extra layer of disturbing. I suggest  
writing in asking for an explanation.
					- Dara

-----
http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp? 
vnu_content_id=1001807768&imw=Y

  U.S. Military Seizes Iraqi Reporter for 'The Guardian'

By E&P Staff

  Published: January 09, 2006 7:55 AM ET
NEW YORK American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into  
the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the London daily, The  
Guardian, and TV's Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he  
was sleeping with his wife and children.

  Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association young  
journalist of the year award, was hooded and taken for questioning, the  
newspaper reports. He was released hours later.

  Fadhil is working with and the newspaper and Guardian Films "on an  
investigation for Channel 4's Dispatches programme into claims that  
tens of millions of dollars worth of Iraqi funds held by the Americans  
and British have been misused or misappropriated," the paper reports.

  "The troops told Dr. Fadhil that they were looking for an Iraqi  
insurgent and seized video tapes he had shot for the programme. These  
have not yet been returned."

  The director of the film, Callum Macrae, said yesterday: "The timing  
and nature of this raid is extremely disturbing. It is only a few days  
since we first approached the US authorities and told them Ali was  
doing this investigation, and asked them then to grant him an interview  
about our findings.