AP Photographer From Iraq Held Without Charges For 5 Months So Far.
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on September 18th, 2006 10:53 am by HL
Bush can’t be having people who go against him. Even if that means Incarceration without charges.
U.S. holds AP photographer in Iraq 5 mos
AP
Excerpt:
The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned an Associated Press photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing.
Military officials said Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi citizen, was being held for “imperative reasons of security” under United Nations resolutions. AP executives said the news cooperative’s review of Hussein’s work did not find anything to indicate inappropriate contact with insurgents, and any evidence against him should be brought to the Iraqi criminal justice system….
according to a May 7 e-mail from U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jack Gardner, who oversees all coalition detainees in Iraq….
“The information available establishes that he has relationships with insurgents and is afforded access to insurgent activities outside the normal scope afforded to journalists conducting legitimate activities,” Gardner wrote to AP International Editor John Daniszewski.
H.L.s Take
Then why not charge him, put him on trial, and let the evidence show his guilt??? Because the U.S. has no evidence against him. This is just another way to show Iraqis that if they mess with Bush, even in a legal activity such as journalism, that you will be locked up without charges and have your life ruined. Franz Kafka could not have imagined a worse scenario in his worst hallucinations. Once again how long before Bush, and the republicans start doing the same thing to Americans right here in The U.S., Oh yeah I forgot, they already have. But here they can’t really get away with it yet, but give them time. (Or we could vote them out of office)