Iraqi Journalists Charged Under New Laws Criminalizing Speech Against The

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http://www.alternet.org/wire/42320/

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Posted at 9:03 PM on September 28, 2006.
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Ahmed al-Karbouli, a reporter for Baghdadiya TV in the violent city of Ramadi, did his best to ignore the death threats, right up until six armed men drilled him with bullets after midday prayers.

He was the fourth journalist killed in Iraq in September alone, out of a total of more than 130 since the 2003 invasion, the vast majority of them Iraqis. But these days, men with guns are not Iraqi reporters' only threat. Men with gavels are, too.

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How soon will this come to america ?
Or will journalist be called enemy combatants and put away under * new torture laws?

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1. Next month it will read 'American journalists arrested ..."