Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[StephanieVanbryce]

Rumsfeld Jails a Journalist Without Charges
28 Oct 2006 02:25 pm

The AP is fighting back. Money quote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_re_us/apme_detained_photographer_5

[Santiago Lyon, the AP's director of photography] said he reviewed [Bilal] Hussein's images and interviewed his colleagues and found nothing to suggest he was doing more than his job in a war zone. The vast majority of images depicts the realities of war, Lyon said, and "may be an inconvenient truth, but a truth nonetheless."

David Zeeck, president of ASNE and executive editor of The News Tribune, of Tacoma, Wash., called Hussein's detention without charges "contrary to American values."

"This is how Saddam Hussein dealt with reporters; he would hold them incommunicado," Zeeck said.