Things get hairy for the other Ali Fadhil, who works as an award-winning Iraqi journalist:
American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children.Um, isn't Iraq supposed to be under the control of the Iraqi police these days?
Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association young journalist of the year award, was hooded and taken for questioning. He was released hours later.
Dr Fadhil is working with Guardian Films on an investigation for Channel 4's Dispatches programme into claims that tens of millions of dollars worth of Iraqi funds held by the Americans and British have been misused or misappropriated.
The troops told Dr Fadhil that they were looking for an Iraqi insurgent and seized video tapes he had shot for the programme. These have not yet been returned.
The director of the film, Callum Macrae, said yesterday: "The timing and nature of this raid is extremely disturbing. It is only a few days since we first approached the US authorities and told them Ali was doing this investigation, and asked them then to grant him an interview about our findings.
"We need a convincing assurance from the American authorities that this terrifying experience was not harassment and a crude attempt to discourage Ali's investigation."
I have always found the tale of these two Ali Fadhil's quite extraordinary. The former ITM blogger nowadays has very little to say about anything.
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Speaking of which, have you been watching Iraq the Model's balloon deflate? It's fucking depressing when even the cheersquad can't get the energy up to wave a few pompoms around.
I just love the comments section, though. It's worth reading for the sheer arrogance of the commenters. Omar expresses his fear and disappointment, and how do the armchair generals respond? By blaming the victims, obviously....
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you want a democracy?
work.
...where is the character?!!!
P2 | Email | Homepage | 01.05.06 - 3:23 pm | #
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Thank you P2! I'm sure all this time Omar and his fellow countrymen were just sitting on their arses waiting for democracy to rain on them. You've shown them the error of their ways. So simple, yet so effective, I don't know how they missed it. All they had to do was work!
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Iraq needs a hero. If one steps up now there is still time. Agressive military action by the US against Iran and or Syria would also help a lot. It would cut back on the 'fishing in troubled waters' being done by those nations and give the Media a bigger bone to chew on. The ONLY reason there are still car bombs going off is because the MSM is still covering them. If the coverage stopped, so would the car bombs
stehpinklen | Email | Homepage | 01.05.06 - 3:11 pm | #
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Muzzle the media, bomb Syria, and get John Rambo on the line. Thanks, stehpinklen, for your valuable contribution.
Fucken morons.
Hilarious?
Depressing?
Both???
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