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.
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.
Hang on let me get my tinfoil hat.
Wow this does not look very good. I would really, really like to believe that this is just some weird coincidence, but that isn't going to be easy.
And why go in shooting? How often is this approach used? I mean if the troops just start firing indiscriminately doesn't that virtually gurantee that there will be innocent Iraqis killed or wounded?
Those tapes need to be returned. All of them! We cannot continue to provide lip service to freedom and then mistreat people in this way. It is clearly bullshit!
hmmm, makes me wonder even more about the Christian Scientist writer...."Hooded" at night???
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