posted on March 29, 2004 01:26:23 PM new
This act by the US military is reprehensible. Can Colin Powell still say they are better off than under Sadam ?
Protests as U.S. closes Iraqi paper
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Several thousand Iraqis protested the closure of a newspaper Sunday, chanting anti-U.S. slogans and burning American flags outside the newspaper's office in Baghdad.
The U.S.-led civil administration in Iraq closed the Baghdad newspaper Al Hawsa for 60 days, accusing its publishers of inciting violence against coalition troops.
The paper is published by followers of prominent Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
"If the Coalition forces are going to keep on presenting us with such messages... they can just dream about any sort of end to terrorism," a statement from the newspaper said. "And they can also dream that we will stay quiet and step down from what we believe."
The Coalition Provisional Authority accused the paper's editors of printing articles that incited violence against U.S. and other coalition troops -- a violation of coalition regulations.
The building was sealed, and anyone caught attempting to publish the paper could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Sadr is the son of Shiite imam Muhammad Baqr al-Sadr, a prominent leader assassinated in 1999. A vocal critic of the American occupation of Iraq, he has a substantial following in the Shiite district of Baghdad that now bears his father's name.
In July, Iraqi police closed a newspaper they accused of running a "clearly inciteful" article calling on Iraqis to kill "all spies and those who cooperate with the U.S."
Baghdad blast wounds 4
Four Iraqi civilians were wounded Sunday, two seriously, in an explosion in the Baghdad neighborhood of Al-Karkh, said Brig. Ali Khazaal, an Iraqi police spokesman.
The blast appeared to have been the result of a buried improvised bomb, he said.
"There were four people injured in this attack, and they were rushed over to the hospital," he Khazaal said. "Two people were lightly injured and two people were severely injured. All of them are being treated."
The names of those injured were not known.
In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Sunday, two civilians -- one British, one Canadian -- were killed in an attack.
The foreign ministries of each country confirmed the deaths, but said no details had been released.
A U.S. military spokesman in Iraq could only confirm "an incident that is being investigated by coalition forces and Iraqi police."
A military spokesman in Iraq could only confirm "an incident that is being investigated by coalition forces and Iraqi police" in Mosul.
A convoy carrying an Iraqi cabinet minister came under attack Sunday in northern Iraq, a coalition spokeswoman and a Kurdish official told CNN.
Nisreen Berwari, Iraq's minister of municipalities and public works, survived unscathed, but her driver and a bodyguard were killed, said coalition spokeswoman Kristi Clemens. Two others were wounded, Clemens said.
Qubad Talibani, a Kurdish official and son of an Iraqi Governing Council member, said the attack was an assassination attempt, but Clemens said it was not known whether Berwari was specifically targeted.
posted on March 29, 2004 01:55:37 PM new
Bushco policy...How to assuage anti-occupation feelings and bring peace and Democracy to the neighborhood. First put the press out of business.
The American authorities said the newspaper may reopen in 60 days. The paper's editors, however, said they had been essentially put out of business.
"When you repress the repressed, they only get stronger," said Hamid al-Bayati, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a prominent Shiite political party. "Punishing this newspaper will only increase the passion for those who speak out against the Americans."
Which helps explain why, just the other day, Maj. Gen David Petraeus, the Army 101st Airborne Division's commanding officer, and top dog in northern Iraq, seized "editorial control" of the only TV station in Mosul over its "predominantly non-factual/unbalanced news coverage."
This because the station, which lost all its cameras to looters and had to rely on acquired programming, including Al-Jazeera's news coverage, aired details of a letter supposedly penned by toppled dictator Saddam Hussein urging Iraqis to rise up against the invaders.
"We have every right as an occupying power to stop the broadcast of something that will incite violence," Petraeus told reporters. "Yes, what we are looking at is censorship but you can censor something that is intended to inflame passions."
posted on March 29, 2004 03:46:28 PM new
More power to the US troops. Stop all the lying BS from those Pro Saddan A Holes.
Now if only the same thing could be done for the lying liberal U.S. news reporting agencys
'We have dispatched Dr. David Kay...to search for the bio-warfare agents we believe hidden in Senator Kerry's forehead. If Senator Kerry has used botox as part of a wrinkle enrichment program, he is in violation of UN Resolution 752. Upon receiving Dr. Kay's report, the weapons of mass destruction that Senator Kerry so adamantly insists do not exist...may well be above his very nose.'" --Dick Cheney when asked whether John Kerry has had Botox treaments
posted on March 29, 2004 05:03:00 PM newBear1949 supports government control of the press. So it turns out Bear1949 is actually a communist parading as a conservative.
If that were true, the KGB would be knocking on your door about now & escorting you to a one way trip to the furnace at Lubyanka.
'We have dispatched Dr. David Kay...to search for the bio-warfare agents we believe hidden in Senator Kerry's forehead. If Senator Kerry has used botox as part of a wrinkle enrichment program, he is in violation of UN Resolution 752. Upon receiving Dr. Kay's report, the weapons of mass destruction that Senator Kerry so adamantly insists do not exist...may well be above his very nose.'" --Dick Cheney when asked whether John Kerry has had Botox treaments
posted on March 29, 2004 08:06:50 PM newIf that were true, the KGB would be knocking on your door about now & escorting you to a one way trip to the furnace at Lubyanka.
How do we jump from Bear1949 being a communist to having a KGB?
posted on March 29, 2004 08:38:56 PM newBear1949 supports government control of the press. So it turns out Bear1949 is actually a communist parading as a conservative.
Would you squelch dissent in the US too, bear?
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posted on March 29, 2004 09:35:41 PM newWould you squelch dissent in the US too, bear?
Only from those lying liberals.......
'We have dispatched Dr. David Kay...to search for the bio-warfare agents we believe hidden in Senator Kerry's forehead. If Senator Kerry has used botox as part of a wrinkle enrichment program, he is in violation of UN Resolution 752. Upon receiving Dr. Kay's report, the weapons of mass destruction that Senator Kerry so adamantly insists do not exist...may well be above his very nose.'" --Dick Cheney when asked whether John Kerry has had Botox treaments
