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Exclusive: Shocking Details on Abuse of Reuters Staffers in Iraq
Editor & Publisher (via Drudge) ^ | May 19 2004 | Greg Mitchell

Posted on 05/19/2004 5:06:06 PM PDT by Amerigomag

NEW YORK In the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Reuters revealed on Tuesday that three Iraqis working for the company, and another Iraqi journalist working for NBC News, were seized for no reason in early January by the U.S. military and taken to a prison near Fallujah where they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, among other forms of mistreatment. The U.S. military has denied the accusations.

(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraqabuse; reuters
Finally, somebody is listening.

Many on this forum have long advocated that Reuters reporters be treated as the enemy in theater.

Me thinks our voices were heard.

1 posted on 05/19/2004 5:06:07 PM PDT by Amerigomag
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To: Amerigomag
Posted (albeit various sources) here, here, and here.
2 posted on 05/19/2004 5:10:18 PM PDT by Clint Williams (Real abuse of Reuters Staffers would be to make them tell the truth...)
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To: Clint Williams

Thanks.


3 posted on 05/19/2004 5:11:37 PM PDT by Amerigomag
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To: Amerigomag

Now come on, if this were true do you REALLY believe they would have spiked the story till mow. LIES LIES and more LIES.


4 posted on 05/19/2004 5:12:50 PM PDT by marty60
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"Ahmad and Sattar both said that they were given badges with the letter 'C' on it. They did not know what the badges meant but whenever they were being taken from one place to another in the base, if any soldier saw their badge they would stop to slap them or hurl abuse.

Hmmm...C. Let me think...Columnist?

5 posted on 05/19/2004 5:13:12 PM PDT by Piranha
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To: Amerigomag

Curiously, the events happened in January and are just now being detailed by Reuters.

This smells of the leftist agenda.


6 posted on 05/19/2004 5:14:06 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
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