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U.S. Troops Detain 2 AP Staffers in Iraq
Yahoo News ^ | 9/23/03 | Unknown

Posted on 09/23/2003 2:27:18 PM PDT by TexKat

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1 posted on 09/23/2003 2:27:19 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: TexKat
Shucks, they let em go.
2 posted on 09/23/2003 2:29:18 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Happy Birthday, Mike...wish you were here.)
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To: TexKat
Amazing how these two guys just "happened" to be around when two different attacks took place, isn't it?

Bet they were former "minders" on Saddam's payroll-- and that they still are.

3 posted on 09/23/2003 2:29:57 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: TexKat
Boo freakin hoo! (the world's smallest violin in playing in the background!)
4 posted on 09/23/2003 2:30:20 PM PDT by friendly ((Badges?, we don gots to show no stinkin' badges!))
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Mr. Silverback; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; ...
Ping.
5 posted on 09/23/2003 2:34:48 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: TexKat
Terrorists-symps in the press should be shot by anonymous sources.
6 posted on 09/23/2003 2:34:59 PM PDT by Lexington Green (The REAL Texas State Motto = Be Friendly Or We'll Kill You)
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To: TexKat; JohnHuang2; MadIvan; TonyInOhio; MeeknMing; itreei; jd792; Molly Pitcher; muggs; ...
The group Human Terrorist Rights Watch said the "reckless reactions" by U.S. soldiers in Iraq are putting journalists terrorist sympathisers and other civilians in unnecessary danger.

[JMHO]

7 posted on 09/23/2003 2:35:06 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK ("If guns kill people, where are mine hiding the bodies.")
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To: mystery-ak
Hey mystery-ak, send birthday wishes to Mike from all of us and tell him we are very proud of him.
8 posted on 09/23/2003 2:36:54 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: TexKat
will do..
9 posted on 09/23/2003 2:41:45 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Happy Birthday, Mike...wish you were here.)
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To: TexKat
The troops holding them certainly had to stand around in the same 110 degree heat. whine whine whine I bet they were happy to get such a sob story to send to their employers though.
10 posted on 09/23/2003 2:41:58 PM PDT by honeygrl
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Some of photographer Karim Kadim's work...


Jouri Mohammed, sister of Ali Khalaf Mohammed, grieves over her brother's death next to a missle crater in the yard of their farm after a U.S. aircraft fired six missiles in al-Sajr, Iraq 9 miles (15 kms) north of Fallujah, Tuesday Sept. 23, 2003 killing three men and wounding three others, police and villagers said. The U.S. military said its forces were pursuing guerrillas who attacked soldiers and that it knew of only one person killed. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 23 4:02 PM

Lying wounded in Fallujah, Iraq hospital beds, from right, Abed Rasheed, 50, Tahseen Mohammed, 9 and his brother Hussein, 11, await further medical treatment after a U.S. aircraft fired six missiles in al-Sajr, Iraq 9 miles (15 miles) north of Fallujah, Tuesday Sept. 23, 2003 wounding the three and killing three other men, police and villagers said. The U.S. military said its forces were pursuing guerrillas who attacked soldiers and that it knew of only one person killed. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 23 11:26 AM

A relative of Ali Khalaf Mohammed points at a hole in the roof of his farm house after a U.S. aircraft fired six missiles in al-Sajr, Iraq 9 miles (15 kms) north of Fallujah, Tuesday Sept. 23, 2003 killing three men and wounding three others, police and villagers said. The U.S. military said its forces were pursuing guerrillas who attacked soldiers and that it knew of only one person killed. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 23 11:11 AM

An Iraqi boy walks past the remains of a US military truck after an attack 20 kilometers, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Friday Sept. 19, 2003. No injuries were reported in the attack. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 19 12:59 PM

An Iraqi boy drags a firehose left behind on the highway near the burning remains of a US military truck after an attack 20 kilometers, 12 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Friday Sept. 19, 2003. No injuries were reported in the attack. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 19 12:59 PM

A US tank passes by as a crane removes a burned American military truck after US troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah on Sept.18, 2003. The Bush administration has asked Turkey, Pakistan and South Korea to send a total of up to 40,000 troops to Iraq as part of a global U.S. drive for help to secure the country still wracked by violence, officials from the nations told The Associated Press. The recruiting drive by Washington is aimed at relieving the burden of the 140,000 American troops spearheading theIraq occupation force in a country where U.S.-led forces are coming under frequent attack. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 19 12:18 PM

Associated Press driver Qasem Abdul Zahra, looks at his car, damaged by gunfire after he said U.S. forces opened fire on him and AP photographer Karim Kadim while trying to photograph a site where American troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah Thursday, Sept.18, 2003. Neither Zahra or Kadim were injured and the car was moved later to this safe residential home nearby. U.S. military vehicles were attacked in two seperate incidents around the town of Khaldiyah, 100 kilometers, 62 miles west of Baghdad Thursday. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 4:32 PM

A crowd of Iraqis hold up a portrait of Saddam Hussein and pieces of burned U.S. military U.S. vehicles as they celebrate at a site where American troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah Thursday, Sept.18, 2003. U.S. military vehicles were attacked in two seperate incidents around the town of Khaldiyah, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad Thursday. The U.S. military in Baghdad said two American soldiers were wounded. Al-Arabiya television reported eight Americans were killed and one wounded.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 4:28 PM

An Iraqi boy points a toy pistol in the face of a U.S. soldier as the two play together in a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 4:22 PM

A crowd of Iraqis hold up portraits of Saddam Hussein and pieces of burned U.S. military U.S.vehicles as they celebrate at a site where American troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah Thursday, Sept.18, 2003. U.S. military vehicles were attacked in two seperate incidents around the town of Khaldiyah, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad Thursday. The U.S. military in Baghdad said two American soldiers were wounded. Al-Arabiya television reported eight Americans were killed and one wounded. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 3:51 PM

A U.S. soldier leans to look at a pile of spent rifle cartridges, said by soldiers to be fired from Iraqi weapons, at a site where American troops exchanged fire with Iraqi attackers in Khaldiyah Thursday, Sept.18, 2003. U.S. military vehicles were attacked in two seperate incidents around the town of Khaldiyah, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad Thursday. The U.S. military in Baghdad said two American soldiers were wounded. Al-Arabiya television reported eight Americans were killed and one wounded. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 3:27 PM

An Iraqi man walks with an Ak-47 rifle as he and others were firing guns in the air to celebrate at a site where American troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. U.S. military vehicles were attacked in two seperate incidents around the town of Khaldiyah, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad Thursday. The U.S. military in Baghdad said two American soldiers were wounded. Al-Arabiya television reported eight Americans were killed and one wounded. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 3:22 PM

U.S. soldiers patrol a street near a pile of spent rifle cartridges, said by soldiers to be fired from Iraqi weapons, at a site where American troops exchanged fire with Iraqi attackers in Khaldiyah Thursday, Sept.18, 2003. U.S. military vehicles were attacked in two seperate incidents around the town of Khaldiyah, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad Thursday. The U.S. military in Baghdad said two American soldiers were wounded. Al-Arabiya television reported eight Americans were killed and one wounded. (APPhoto/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 3:25 PM

A crowd of Iraqis hold up portraits of Saddam Hussein and pieces of burned U.S. military U.S.vehicles as they celebrate at a site where American troops were ambushed near Khaldiyah Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. U.S. military vehicles were attacked in two seperate incidents around the town of Khaldiyah, 100 kilometers, 60 miles west of Baghdad Thursday. The U.S. military in Baghdad said two American soldiers were wounded. Al-Arabiya television reported eight Americans were killed and one wounded.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 18 1:33 PM

Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio, right, shakes hands with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad Saturday Sept, 13, 2003. Palacio is in Iraq to assess developments in the political process and possible cooperation projects between the two nations. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 13 2:46 PM

An Iraqi man walks past a bullet pocked and soot scarred Jordanian Hospital building in Fallujah, Iraq , after an early morning fire fight where U.S. soldiers mistakenly opened fire on a group of Iraqi policemen and at hospital guards in the building, killing eight Iraqis and wounding seven others including a guard at the Jordanian Hospital, witnesses said Friday Sept. 12, 2003. It was the deadliest friendly fire incident since the end of major fighting. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 12 6:19 PM

Iraqis try to fill plastic containers with gasoline spilling from bullet holes in the side of an Iraqi gasoline truck on the side of a highway near the Iraqi town of Samarra Thursday Sept. 11, 2003. Iraqi police shot holes in the tanker after accusing the drivers of smuggling stolen gas. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 11 11:10 AM

People released from Iraq 's Abu Graib prison celebrate and wave at traffic as they run down the highway on the outskirts of Baghdad in their former prison uniforms Tuesday Sept. 9, 2003. The men, who say they were held in Iraq's main prison for various crimes such as small arms weapon possession or theft , were released by US forces after three months in custody. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 09 11:00 AM

U.S soldiers patrol in the street in front of Baghdad's abandoned television building, which witnesses say was set ablaze by looters Tuesday Sept. 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
AP - Sep 09 10:06 AM


11 posted on 09/23/2003 2:42:03 PM PDT by michigander
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Shoot 'em and ask questions later!
12 posted on 09/23/2003 2:43:12 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: TexKat
U.S. Troops Detain 2 AP Staffers in Iraq

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13 posted on 09/23/2003 2:43:34 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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The AP sent a letter of protest to the U.S. military in Baghdad.

Heck, the military ought to be sending letters of protest to AP to keep their reporters out of the way! I'm starting to think Saddam's plan of having minders for reporters is a good idea!

14 posted on 09/23/2003 2:44:19 PM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: michigander
That guy definitely doesn't appear to be on the right side of things.
15 posted on 09/23/2003 2:44:34 PM PDT by honeygrl
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To: TexKat
I have a funny feeling there is more to this story than meets the printed page! But of course our troops' side of the story will NEVER be even adequately reported by the biased Liberal, pro-Clinton media.

As far as I'm concerned, our soldiers overall show incredible self-control, respect and patience as they exercise their duties on behalf of OUR freedom, security and safety.



16 posted on 09/23/2003 2:45:14 PM PDT by MissouriForBush
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To: mystery-ak
good for the Army!
17 posted on 09/23/2003 2:48:18 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: TexKat
How in the world did the AP steal these guys away from Al-Jazeera ?
18 posted on 09/23/2003 2:50:51 PM PDT by Peace will be here soon
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To: TexKat
Good. If thse idiots were smart they would buddy up to the US troops, but if they want to get killed, so be it.
19 posted on 09/23/2003 2:51:21 PM PDT by RobbyS (nd)
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To: pierrem15
Amazing how these two guys just "happened" to be around when two different attacks took place, isn't it?

Karim Kadim and driver Mohammed Abbas, both Iraqis,....

And they're wondering why they were detained?

20 posted on 09/23/2003 2:51:44 PM PDT by barker (Still believe in my KC Royals. Randa's rockin')
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