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Associated Press president Tom Curley says his news organization does not buy the government's argument that one of its photographers arrested in Iraq was working on behalf of the enemy, and he alleged the US is rounding up journalists in an attempt to control information.

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nikkibabe
March 20, 2008, 9:43 a.m.
Human Rights and Freedom of the Press, USA Style.
If Iraq is an independent sovereign country with its own constitution and government, how can a foreign government like USA arrest someone in that country?
So, who is really in charge there?
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bhBtGkGVpi
March 20, 2008, 9:58 a.m.
Iraq is not independent country...
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djrevelky
March 20, 2008, 10:13 a.m.
I never believe anything the AP says. When Reuters, the BBC, NBC, or NPR say the US is arresting jouranlist to control information flow, then I'll believe.
The AP has a long history of being the only news agency making accusations against the US that are false. The international news community never follows suit.
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nikkibabe
March 20, 2008, 11 a.m.
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"Iraq is not independent country...".
uumm. So the President Talibani, Prime Minister, Al-Maliki are just puppets of the US government and on Bush payroll.
Interesting.
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jordan11
March 20, 2008, 11:01 a.m.
He's been in a military jail for two years? Is he being held as an enemy combatant, or what? I remember many years ago when I'd have said hurrah for the good guys, meaning us of course. Boy, was I naive'. Anyway, they need to give him a public trial, so the world can see what's going on. Otherwise, this looks bad for the 'good guys.'
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Howtogo
March 20, 2008, 12:21 p.m.
Check out the facts. If they are true he needs to go to jail. If not he deserves an apology and those with the wrong facts need to go to jail.
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dissent
March 20, 2008, 9:30 p.m.
one of those photos won him the pulitzer prize in 05. don't you think it's about time he was charged and put on trial or is everybody getting real cosy with the idea that people just disappear into the US black hole of indefinite detention these days?
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abntv
March 20, 2008, 3:24 p.m.
There is nothing new here..this story is two years old.
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amazed
March 20, 2008, 4:41 p.m.
It seems to be beyond the bash America crowd's comprehension that in ALL war zones, the flow of information is necessarily restricted. They don't seem to realize that the journalists in Iraq have unprecendented freedom in comparison to other wars. Do you think Edward R. Murrow would have been allowed to broadcast troop movements or ANYTHING that was harmful to our cause. Of course, it is also likely that back then the journalists were adult enough and patriotic enough to not deliberately do whatever they could to undermine the US effort.
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TJinSG
March 20, 2008, 5:39 p.m.
So just what is the US effort in Iraq? It can't be because Saddam had anything to do with 9/11 as stated by Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_A77N5WKWM&feat...
Bush did say the Iraqis had resentment and lack of hope against the US. Could it be they resented us because we were bombing them since 1991? They lost hope that it would ever stop?
The US effort couldn't have been because Saddam had WMD's, listen to Powell and Rice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHnSPsZshyM
So just what was the cause to go to Iraq? Listen to this report from 60 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWkGhV3PsLo&feat...
We didn't liberate the Iraqi people, we killed them, arrested any that resisted, blew up their neighborhoods and let them live in encampments.
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jaern
March 20, 2008, 5:51 p.m.
AP is that liberal news media. And we all know liberals are terrorists in bed w/ OBL and Alqaeda. We should all be locked up in Gitmo.
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nikkibabe
March 20, 2008, 8:38 p.m.
What happened to the First Amendment?
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ETproductions
March 21, 2008, 11:01 p.m.
Hooray! Another drive by miss by tongue-tied ningyo. A Repugnicon so true to the cause that he/she only knows how to hit the negative button, never able to rebut the post with actual words.