what our troops didn't want reported

[donsu]

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6826505%5E1702,00.html

A JAPANESE reporter was manhandled and briefly detained by US troops in Baghdad after filming their weekend raid on a house in search for ousted president Saddam Hussein, Japanese press reports said.

Kazutaka Sato, 47, was held in an arm-lock, thrown to the ground and kicked by several US soldiers Sunday when he was filming the bodies of Iraqis being removed from a car which was shot up in the raid, the reports said.

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Kyodo said US troops had tried to bar Sato from filming the raid. The soldiers did not explain why photography was forbidden in the area, it added.

"US troops might have tried to conceal the deaths of civilians," he was quoted by the Asahi as saying. "Violence against journalists means the obstruction of news gathering activities and supresses speech."
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[Sequoia]

1. Hey, support our troops....right.

This crap stinks to high heaven. Now I've been hearing that Japan may send troops over but according to their constitution they can't shoot anyone, just hold a gun, unless they're shot at first. And if they're in a safe area. Ain't no place "safe" place in the Middle East.