Reuters demands release of wounded Iraq journalist

[Barrett808]

Reuters demands release of wounded Iraq journalist
By Alastair Macdonald
Mon Aug 29, 7:17 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Reuters demanded the immediate release on Monday of an Iraqi cameraman who was still being held by U.S. forces more than 24 hours after being wounded in an incident in which his soundman was killed.

Iraqi police said the news team was shot by U.S. soldiers.

The U.S. military said it was still investigating and refused to say what questions it was putting to cameraman Haider Kadhem. It would not say where in Baghdad he was held nor identify the unit holding him.

"Reuters demands the immediate release of Haider Kadhem," Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger said.

"We fail to understand what reason there can be for his continued detention more than a day after he was the innocent victim of an incident in which his colleague was killed."

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Whetstone, a military spokesman, said: "He is being questioned by our investigating officer."

He said there were "inconsistencies" in Kadhem's statements and officers were looking into "events that led up to the incident." No military investigator, however, had contacted Reuters, whose senior staff offered a full account of the assignment on which they dispatched the journalists shortly before they were shot.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050829/ts_nm/iraq_reuters_dc

[tanyev]

1. Or what?

They gonna start blowing the whistle on the Bush gang?

[Gregorian]

3. Or they will start actually reporting the real news.

Now that would be a threat.

[Barrett808]

2. Reuters soundman killed in Baghdad, police blame US (witness held by US)

Reuters soundman killed in Baghdad, police blame US (witness held by US)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1732972&mesg_id=1732972