[SkyPilot]

Kar, a U.S. citizen and Navy veteran, went to Iraq 14 months ago to make a documentary film about Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who wrote the world's first human rights charter.

Sure he did.

[radar101]

Henry Weinstein....................................... http://patterico.com/2006/06/24/4766/la-times-thug-henry-weinstein-repeats-vicious-slanders-against-federal-judge-for-the-umpteenth-time/................................. Back in June 2004, I laid out extensive evidence that L.A. Times staff writer Henry Weinstein never, ever passes up an opportunity to repeat the nasty and false things that Stephen Yagman has said about Judge William D. Keller, for whom I clerked from 1995 to 1996......................... Read the post for the details. Suffice it to say that Yagman said plenty of nasty things about Judge Keller. All were untrue. Yagman has since apologized. Yet Henry Weinstein never tires of repeating these defamatory statements...................................... By my count, The Times, virtually always in articles by Weinstein, repeated Yagman’s vicious slanders against Judge Keller sixteen times over the course of five years. It didn’t matter that the falsehoods were frequently irrelevant to the story. It didn’t matter that Yagman, hardly a guy prone to glib contrition, later apologized to Keller for the slanders. Most fundamentally, it didn’t matter that Yagman never produced evidence for outrageous statements such as his accusation that Keller was “drunk on the bench.” ...................................................... Weinstein just likes repeating Yagman’s smears, because he doesn’t like Judge Keller. So, with the utter arrogance characteristic of journalists drunk on their own power, Weinstein repeated the spurious charges — again, and again, and again, and again, and again.................... Read through the block quotes in the post linked above. They are all set out — all sixteen of them — by date. Just scan them quickly. You’ll see what I mean. This thug Weinstein just absolutely revels in the opportunity to take a shot at Judge Keller — every chance he gets.

[Jacquerie]

Absent second, third or forth party verification I don't believe a word of this. Thanks old media, your frequent and repeated lies and distortions have made me cynical and disbelieving of any story that advances the "US is terrible" story line.

[Jack Hammer]

No wonder Cyrus conquered the Medes - he had explosives; maybe he had AK47s, too. Anyway, the stuff in the trunk was probably just a load of props for the documentary.

[Michael.SF.]

Kar, went to Iraq 14 months ago to make a documentary film about Cyrus the Great,

Talk about timing, it's not like he had to rush over there to interview Cyrus or anything.

[Defiant]

Actually, the guy was legit, he was detained and held for a long time without any evidence he had done anything, and actually is a pro-American US citizen of Iranian origin. The reason he was held: He had a camera with him. The reason he was released: When his family complained, the authorities looked at it, they saw he had done nothing, and finally let him go.

If it was me, I'd want something for the time I spent wrongly imprisoned. If I had done something that gave an army reason to hold me indefinitely, even if I was innocent, I'd just say, hey, that's war, but from what I can tell, they should have released this guy as soon as his story checked out, and they continued to hold him. You think that time in the Iraqi slammer was a picnic for him? I doubt it very much.

[Rummyfan]

Kar, a U.S. citizen and Navy veteran, went to Iraq 14 months ago to make a documentary film about Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who wrote the world's first human rights charter.

His timing is certainly suspect - or he's really stupid! And Cyrus wrote a 'human rights charter'? Who knew!

[Jameison]

"Mark D. Rosenbaum, legal director of the ACLU of Southern California,"

They shoulda handed him over to Zarqawi, since the ACLU love the guy so much.

[kcvl]

http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/images/Cyrus_Kar.jpg


Cyrus Kar, a 44-year-old part time college professor at the University of Phoenix

Kar grew up along the West Coast after emigrating from Iran

he was arrested along with his Iranian cameraman and the Iraqi taxi driver who admitted owning the timer devices found in the taxi


He began working on a filmed documentary about his namesake Cyrus the Great and visited England, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan for shooting before obtaining permission from the US government to visit Iraq.


On May 17, Kar and his Iranian cameraman hired an Iraqi taxi driver to take them to the outskirts of Baghdad. When they were stopped at a checkpoint, Iraqi police searched the trunk and found a bag of washing machine timers, devices that can be used to set off roadside bombs.



Ms. Kar (his sister), who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Africa, said she had discouraged her brother from going to Iraq


Anna Kar, Mr. Kar's sister, said she had spent some time with her brother in Tehran, where their mother lives, about six weeks before he traveled into Iraq. She warned him about the dangers of such a trip, she said, but her fears were no match for his determination to complete filming for a documentary he had been trying to make about the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.



During the course of his interrogation he was asked many questions about his past, including "did you vote in the last Presidential election?" Cyrus Kar answered that he had. He was then asked "who did you vote for?" Cyrus Kar answered "John Kerry."




"There's a tremendous amount of humiliation that follows that arrest policy, and I strongly believe that one of the major reasons that the insurgency is growing is because when detainees are released, they come out, and they're looking for retribution. …They're angry."

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

On May 17, 2005, the taxi he was riding in was stopped at a Baghdad checkpoint and authorities found components in the trunk that are commonly used in improvised explosive devices. The taxi driver told military authorities that Kar and his cameraman knew nothing about the items, which the driver said he was bringing to his brother-in-law

Pretty much MOM lesson #1 be carefull of the company you keep.