Iraqi anti-corruption journalist arrested by Americans
Dr. Ali Fadhil (photographed here with Musatafa Kamil) the prize winning journalist currently working with Britiain's The Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 Films the film making subsidiary to Britain's Channel 4 television station was arrested in his home by US troops who burst into his home and arrested him in the presence of his wife, 3 year old daughter Sarah, and 7 month old son. The troops forced their way in to the house at night while the family were sleeping (...) Dr. Fadhil is perhaps best known for his documentary film on the aftermath of the Falluja Massacres and was working with Callum Macrae and Guardian Films for Channel 4's "Dispatches" documentary programmed collecting evidence that tens of millions of dollars of Iraqi funds have been misused or misappropriated by American and British officials...
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Iraqi anti-corruption journalist arrested by Americans
Mark from Ireland
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January 9, 2006
Dr. Ali Fadhil (photographed here with Musatafa Kamil) the prize winning journalist currently working with Britiain's The Guardian newspaper and Channel 4 Films the film making subsidiary to Britain's Channel 4 television station was arrested in his home by US troops who burst into his home and arrested him in the presence of his wife, 3 year old daughter Sarah, and 7 month old son.
The troops forced their way in to the house at night while the
family were sleeping.
"They
fired into the bedroom where we were sleeping, then three soldiers came
in. They rolled me on to the floor and tied my hands. When I tried to
ask them what they were looking for they just told me to shut up,"
Dr. Fadhil is perhaps best known for his documentary film on the aftermath of the Falluja Massacres (film available here) (transcripts here and here ) was working with Callum Macrae and Guardian Films for Channel 4's "Dispatches"
documentary programmed collecting evidence that tens of millions of
dollars of Iraqi funds have been misused or misappropriated by American
and British officials.
The US troops took the films made by Dr.
Fadhil during the course of his investigation and have so far not
returned although Dr. Fadhil has himself been released. The timing of
the raid as is its purported reason is suspect — the tro0ps claimed
they were looking for an insurgent — however as Macrae pointed out to The Guardian:
"The
timing and nature of this raid is extremely disturbing. It is only a
few days since we first approached the US authorities and told them Ali
was doing this investigation, and asked them then to grant him an
interview about our findings.
"We
need a convincing assurance from the American authorities that this
terrifying experience was not harassment and a crude attempt to
discourage Ali's investigation."
No doubt my readers are as shocked, shocked
I tell you, as I am to learn that anybody could for even a moment
contemplate the idea that troops who serve one of the most notoriously
corrupt administrations in US history. Occupying a country foreign
country solely by force of arms and which said occupation has been
characterised from the outset by incompetence, racism, brutality, and
corruption, could possibly be trying to intimidate one of the "sand
niggers" that they are putatively protecting.
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