Haditha Reporter Was Jailed By US, Shares Name With Source

Sweetness & Light ^ | June 1, 2006 | N/A

[Marine_Uncle]

Don't bust a blood vessel over this. If this is an accurate report, and if it turns out as some of us strongly suspect a bunch of fabrications where reported early on, then if anything it will perhaps close this case against the Marines.
We continue to have very little info as to why any of those Marines are being checked out, other then alleged crimes. Surely our military court is not going to let some crap effect the outcome if it becomes verifiable that this is all a fabrication.
We still have no idea as to why these Marines where taken off active duty. They may not be charged with anything in the end.

[GeronL]

Aha.... that is interesting... fodder for the show David?

[SevenMinusOne]

My bigger question is why aren't the world's headlines condemning terrorist attacks killing civies day in and day out? Sure they report on them, usually to make it appear they are winning, but if they are so concerned about civilian deaths, why the f**k don't they try shaming the terrorists with 24/7 headline like they are trying to do to the Marines?

Answer: They are on the terrorists side. We are due for a revolution.

You have it exactly right - the MSM in this country is evil - A segment of them are truly evil anymore (the decision makers) - the rest are simply pathetic -

[Sam Hill]

Some more details about al-Mashhadani's first arrest last year, from the National Press Photographers Association:

NPPA Calls For Answers From U.S. Military, Release Of Journalists Held Without Charges

DURHAM, NC (August 31, 2005) – The National Press Photographers Association joins with the Committee To Protect Journalists, the Reuters News Agency and other media and press freedom organizations in urging the United States military to explain immediately why it is holding in custody Iraqi photojournalist Ali Omar Abrahem al-Mashhadani, a freelance photojournalist who works for Reuters,..

Reuters photojournalist al-Mashhadani is still being held more than two weeks after his arrest. Reuters reports today that a “secret tribunal” has ordered him held, without charges, in Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison for up to 6 months when his case may be reviewed again.

Reuters quotes a military spokesperson who said the tribunal decided that the photojournalist is, in their opinion, “a threat to the people of Iraq.” Reuters says the military will not tell them why the photojournalist is being held and has refused all requests to detail their suspicions about Mashhadani, or to make any specific accusations. The military response to a demand for his release is that he’s “a security detainee with links to insurgents.”

“Reuters is extremely concerned by this development and is calling for the U.S. military to release al-Mashhadani or to publicly air their case against him,” Stephen Naru, the global head of media relations for Reuters, told NPPA this morning.

Additionally, the U.S. military has confirmed that five journalists for major news organizations are now in detention, including al-Mashhadani and another freelance photojournalist who works for Reuters, as well as a CBS cameraman.

Reuters journalist al-Mashhadani was arrested by U.S. troops on August 8 after a search of his Ramadi, Iraq, home; the military has refused to say why he is being held and there are no charges against him. His brother was detained with him and then released, and he says al-Mashhadani was arrested after they looked at images on his cameras…

“We’re extremely concerned when someone like al-Mashhadani, an accredited photojournalist working for a global news agency, can be held incommunicado since his arrest many days ago and simply held without any explanation,” NPPA president Alicia Wagner Calzada said today…

“Also of grave concern to us are reports from his family that Marines arrested him after finding video and still images during a routine sweep of his neighborhood,” Calzada said. “Reuters says they have provided U.S. officials with samples of Mashhadani’s published work to help establish that the video and still images on his cameras and computers that were found during the search were gathered in the course of his employment. We are disturbed by the appearance that the U.S. military is engaged in summarily arresting journalists in Iraq for simply being journalists, and that a photojournalist would be considered a threat for merely possessing newsworthy images.

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2005/08/iraq.html

I’ve searched high and low, and while Mr. al-Mashhadani’s brother is often mentioned, his name is never given. It would be interesting to find what it is.

[boxerblues]

yoohoo get a load of this

[cardinal4]

I think the Muslims are lying.

Me, too, their lips are moving..

[Mo1]

I'm waiting for the report from the military

But I will say .. this video and how it came about smells funny

How do we know it was made on the day of this incident and how do we know they weren't shot by the terrorists?

[ohioWfan]

Whoaaa..........baby!

Did CBSABCNBCCNN have this little tidbit as a headline tonight??

[usmcobra]

I wonder what Ali al-Mashhadani did before the war, Iraqi Ministry of Information perhaps? Baghdad Bob's man in Haditha?

[mystery-ak]

I want the bodies dug up, I want a ballistic test...

[jwalsh07]

I want to know if these people knew about the IED. If they did and said nothing then they are complicit.

[boxerblues]

Did CBSABCNBCCNN have this little tidbit as a headline tonight??

lol havent seen it yet

[mystery-ak]

I've read reports that kids do exactly that....stand by houses and wait for the troops to arrive and notify the terrorists....

[Mo1]

Yep

If this turns out to be a bogus story by the media .. there will be hell to pay

[veronica]

Great stuff, as always. Keep up the good work!

[mystery-ak]

Damn...Fox News alert....7 Marines and 1 sailor to be charged with murder tomorrow re another incident in April....

[Sam Hill]

Thanks.

Anybody with Lexis-Nexus out there could maybe turn up the brother and Ali's relationship (if any) to the "human rights group."

Also, probably more details about the original arrest. And his second arrest.

It sure is fishy.

[tgslTakoma]

If this was an American murder investigation (hey wait, it is) they would exhume the bodies. Good comment.

I don't trust Reuters. Or Time.

[pointsal]

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[Para-Ord.45]

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