Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Kit McChesney wrote: > > > Don't blame the military for the folly of the politicians. They > only carry > > out the half-baked ideas of the powers-that-be. Letter to Pentagon accuses US troops of intimidation By Mark Jurkowitz, Globe Staff, 11/13/2003 The Associated Press says soldiers in Iraq detained one of its photographers and a driver in late September near the site of the Abu Ghraib prison. Knight Ridder says its photographer at the scene of the Nov. 2 downing of a Chinook helicopter had photographs destroyed by the US military. Reuters, which had a cameraman killed in August in what the US military called an accident, says another photographer was detained last month by Iraqi police alleging to be acting on orders from US forces. Amid growing reports of journalists being harassed and intimidated by troops policing postwar Iraq, representatives of 30 media organizations, ranging from CNN and ABC to the Newhouse News Service and The Boston Globe, have signed a letter to the Pentagon raising concerns about what they view as an increasingly hostile reporting environment.... more http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/13/media_protest_treatmen t_in_iraq/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html