AP Photographer Freed From U.S. Custody

[DoYouEverWonder]

April 24, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Mohammed Ibrahim, a photographer working for The Associated Press, was released Sunday by the U.S. military, which had held him after a shooting in which a television cameraman working for The AP was killed.

Ibrahim was wounded when gunfire broke out after an explosion Saturday in the northern city of Mosul. Saleh Ibrahim, a television cameraman working for The Associated Press, was killed in the same incident. The two men were brothers-in-law.

Mohammed Ibrahim said U.S. forces escorted him and his brother, Wamidh, who contributes to European Pressphoto Agency, from the hospital hours after the shooting and released them after nearly 24 hours in detention.

A U.S. military official, who would not allow the use of his name, said the two men had been "caught up in the sweep after the situation."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-journalists-detained,0,1975746.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


Talk about adding insult to injury. I wonder who really killed his brother-in-law?

[MisterP]

1. that's SO nice...did he get any medical treatment whatsoever for the shrap

nel in his skull while he was in custody?
Well, at least he's alive, 'coz all I can say about Rummy's New Army is, "Someone's in the kitchen with DINA."

[w4rma]

2. "caught up in the sweep after the situation."

That means "friendly fire". U.S. troops shot him. They probably saw that they weren't fellow soldiers, and they were near the area of the explosion, and shot them thinking they might have set the explosives.

It's impossible to win a war where you must consider *everyone* living in the area your enemy.

[norml]

3. This one's still locked up: Iraqi police detain Reuters cameraman

Iraqi police detain Reuters cameraman


Iraqi police detain Reuters cameraman
24 Apr 2005 14:02:27 GMT

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, April 24 (Reuters) - Iraqi police have detained a Reuters Television cameraman for more than 24 hours in the northern city of Mosul, with no details released of any charges, relatives and colleagues said on Sunday.

The father of cameraman Nabil Hussein, 30, has also been detained since he tried to visit his son a few hours after the arrest. Relatives said about 20 policemen raided the home of Nabil Hussein on Saturday morning and then beat him, his driver and a fellow journalist before detaining them.The driver and the second journalist were released later on Saturday.

Driver Ismail Ibrahim and Hussein's brother, Namir, who said he also witnessed the arrests, said police did not state a reason for their actions and no charges were mentioned.

"They put bags on our heads and beat us," Ibrahim said, adding the men had been taken to Mosul's police headquarters.



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