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  • Minister Tells Media to Fall In Line(Media Inciting Terror Propaganda Will Be Arrested)

    02/26/2006 6:30:20 PM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 19 replies · 2,438+ views
    AFP ^ | 2/26/2006 2:54:49 | The Peninsula On-line
    BAGHDAD: Iraqi newspapers inciting violence will be suspended and their journalists arrested, Defence Minister Saadun Al Dulaimi said yesterday, unveiling a new security plan for the violence-wracked country. "This is a warning to media working in Iraq," he said in a press conference. Dulaimi also slammed the media for exaggerating violence since the blowing up of the Al Askariya shrine in Samarra on Wednesday which sparked days of sectarian violence, saying the official death toll was 119 civilians. "After verification on the ground, 119 civilians were killed since Wednesday, not 183 as reported in the media," he said. "The government...