US military 'brutalised' journalists

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1121981,00.html

News agency demands inquiry after American forces in Iraq allegedly treated camera crew as enemy personnel

Luke Harding in Baghdad
Tuesday January 13, 2004
The Guardian

The international news agency Reuters has made a formal complaint to the Pentagon following the "wrongful" arrest and apparent "brutalisation" of three of its staff this month by US troops in Iraq.

The complaint followed an incident in the town of Falluja when American soldiers fired at two Iraqi cameramen and a driver from the agency while they were filming the scene of a helicopter crash.

The US military initially claimed that the Reuters journalists were "enemy personnel" who had opened fire on US troops and refused to release them for 72 hours.

Although Reuters has not commented publicly, it is understood that the journalists were "brutalised and intimidated" by US soldiers, who put bags over their heads, told them they would be sent to Guantanamo Bay, and whispered: "Let's have sex."

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[tinanator]

1. and KILLED a goodly number too

let's not whitewash things here. What is the journalist body count now?

[amber dog democrat]

2. Easier to kill them

and apologize later, i.e. if the US Forces ever apologize.
We can't let the press and NEWS ORGS stand in the way of our bringing
freedom and democracy to these ungrateful wretches.

[Say_What]

3. "bags over their heads and a shoe in their mouth"

an this is the sh*t we hear about. Imagine what life must be like for the now *free* Iraqi's. :puke:

[saigon68]

4. Winning Hearts and Minds

Put a bag over their head.

Tie them up like a pig.

ya that will go a long way.

WE HAVE YET TO REAP---WHAT WE HAVE SOWN !!!!!

[xchrom]

5. bush sets the example

and that's all there is to it.
this was an immoral and illegal misadventure and there's no way around it.
the troops are simply putting the commander in chiefs lack of moral direction into action.
indict bush and bring our troops home.