Reply #5: Censorship by the Military in Iraq - who woulda thought ? ? [View All]

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Hardly what one would call "freedom"? Heck, now all the journalists have to REGISTER with the military and get "pass" cards just to be in the country ?

Thought this was the Iraqi's country, not the US Miltary's . .

Anyhoo

from the Article:

"The IFJ is supporting its affiliate, the Journalists Association of Korea, which is calling on the US military in Iraq and the US administration to apologize and to make public "internal regulations" on the basis of which the US military authorities detained the journalists.

"These regulations are used to control journalists, but journalists are ignorant of what they are and how they are applied," said White.

This latest incident comes as the right of all journalists to enter Iraq to cover all sides of the story without the need for a license, specific permission or accreditation by the US authorities has been restricted. At the beginning of March, US forces announced that all journalists currently in, or arriving to, Iraq must register with and obtain a press card from them.

As part of an international campaign, the IFJ has declared April 8th - the anniversary of the attack by US military on a Baghdad hotel filled with foreign journalists in which two were killed - a day of mourning and protest over the killings of journalists during the Iraq war and the "abject failure" of the Pentagon to carry out adequate investigations and to publish the findings.

"The detention of our Korean colleagues, like other incidents in recent months, confirms our feeling that the US military operate with a sense of impunity when it comes to dealing with journalists," said White. "They act like all journalists are potentially hostile and that puts all reporters and media staff at risk."

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Not only has the USA NOT won the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqi people, they are INCREASING their enemies all over the world, and scaring away allies that they may need in the future ..

You can't win EVERYTHING with guns and bombs . .

But that seems to be the BFEE's attitude . . .

Do it our way or else . .

(sigh)