"Freedom" barges in waving guns and wearing jack boots!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,16518,1682246,00.html
US troops seize award-winning Iraqi journalist
Monday January 9, 2006
The Guardian
American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home
of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and 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. He
was released hours later.
Dr Fadhil is working with 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 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.
"We need a convincing assurance from the American authorities that
this terrifying experience was not harassment and a crude attempt to
discourage Ali's investigation."
Dr Fadhil was asleep with his wife, their three-year-old daughter,
Sarah, and seven-month-old son, Adam, when the troops forced their way
in.
"They fired into the bedroom where we were sleeping, then three
soldiers came in. They rolled me on to the floor and tied my hands.
When I tried to ask them what they were looking for they just told me
to shut up," he said.
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