AP Photog Held By US Without Charges Has First Hearing In Iraq Court

AP:

An Iraqi investigating magistrate on Sunday convened the first criminal hearing in the case of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by the U.S. military without charges for nearly 20 months.

Hussein was present for most of the nearly seven-hour, closed-door proceeding in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq before magistrate Dhia al-Kinani. It was the first time Hussein or his lawyers have seen any of the materials gathered by the U.S. military against him since his arrest in Ramadi on April 12, 2006.

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Comments

[realitytrumpsbull]

05:45 PM on 12/09/2007

One big gigantic liar's club...with artificial
villains, staged circumstances, deliberate
misrepresentations, manipulation, the whole
9 yards. Build a moon base instead, with all
that money. Teach people to do for themselves
and drastically reform government spending, too.
Or at least drop the pretense of being
'christian' etc. Hand up, not handouts,
due observance of the old 'shalt nots',
and stop trying to put lipstick on THIS pig.
End the war, start the congressional hearings...
http://www.impeachbush.org

[sparkey]

04:53 PM on 12/09/2007

This is starting to look typical of the Cheney presidency. Don't let the public know what's really happening. Keep them in the dark and continue the lie that everything is going great. Oh,and keep the money coming in for as long as possible and when the public does start to understand,head for South America.

[wndrwrthg]

04:35 PM on 12/09/2007

If he were not guilty, then he would never have been arrested.

[HansB]

04:25 PM on 12/09/2007

This is crucial, not only for him but for the future of journalism in Iraq. The question being, Is it a crime to submit photographs or reports which the US military does not like?

[mamacat]

04:17 PM on 12/09/2007

It sounds like another abandonment of principle by the Republican controlled military. I think we are becoming numbed to all of the outrageous deeds of this administration. It would take a super-czar special prosecutor, reigning over a whole team of special prosecutors, to maintain any kind of oversight and accountability on this administration. The principles of democracy are being forgotten in the neo-con rush to power. Adios Republican party, the GOP of our youth, hola neo-con dictators.