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Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
AP campaigns for release of terrorist friendly photojournalist from US military custody
The story:
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.
Hussein, 35, is a native of Fallujah who began work for the AP in September 2004. He photographed events in Fallujah and Ramadi until he was detained on April 12 of this year.
“We want the rule of law to prevail. He either needs to be charged or released. Indefinite detention is not acceptable,” said Tom Curley, AP’s president and chief executive officer. “We’ve come to the conclusion that this is unacceptable under Iraqi law, or Geneva Conventions, or any military procedure.”
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The military said Hussein was captured with two insurgents, including Hamid Hamad Motib, an alleged leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. “He has close relationships with persons known to be responsible for kidnappings, smuggling, improvised explosive device (IED) attacks and other attacks on coalition forces,” 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.
Powerline has the details on Bilal Hussein, including photos he’s taken of ‘insurgents’ in Iraq in the midst of a terrorist attack. Here are some photos Hussein took while in the company of the ‘insurgency’. My money is on the US military being in the right here. If Hussein knows in advance about upcoming terrorist attacks and doesn’t alert anyone to them – instead choosing to photograph them, he’s no better than the terrorists themselves.
PM Update: Malkin’s got the latest news, including a link to Reuters story that quotes the Pentagon as saying that Hussein had “”strong ties to known insurgents.”
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Sounds to me like this guy was the propoganda manager for some insurgents. Forgive me if I don’t weep for his lost innocence. I can understand why the AP wants him freed, though. The guy must have all sorts of Anti-American propoganda they can use.
“We’ve come to the conclusion that this is unacceptable under Iraqi law, or Geneva Conventions, or any military procedure.”
I don’t seem to remember any memtion of news media in the Geneva Conventions, and “civilians “don’t hang with illegal combatants or known terrorists. Perhaps the AP forgot to tell their employee about this rule.
I suggest that the AP get better lawyers .. and photographers.
Just another blantant example of the lame stream media being on the side of the terrorists and against Bush, how pathetic.
Why sure the AP want’s him released after all they are trying to compete with the Rueters fake photo gig.
I have a charge for this guy. It is called Complicity to a Murder. He was there photographing the murder of an Italian hostage, and doesn’t expect some sort of retaliation?? Hello Genius???? I bet he took the photograph as they were pumping this poor soul full of bullets, or as he was pleading for his life. Did he turn in the terrorists that killed this poor man?? Doubtful, after all he has 1st amendment rights of the press. Stupid idiots on the US Supreme Court trying to confer Constitutional rights to people who are not citizens. Maybe we should give them their 2nd amendment rights too. But I digress.
I say keep him until he talks, and starts to tell us what he knows. When he does the AP can move him here and he can get ‘chummy’ to the jihadees in this country under his new identity. – Lorica
AP is treading on thin ice lately. Check this out:
Document: Associated Press (AP) Employee Spies For Saddam Intelligence Service.
Just more reasons to luuuuv our wonderful media…all the news that’s fit to make up and twist and distort.
Treason can be defined as aiding an enemy. Treason used to mean death to the traitor. Now it means a prize. Progress? I doubt it.