19 December 2006

Bringing Democracy to the Middle East - Another Episode

U.S. forces detain Reuters correspondent in Ramadi

Ramadi, Dec 19, (VOI) – U.S. forces early on Tuesday arrested the correspondent of Reuters news agency in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, Iraqi police said.
"A large number of U.S. Hummer vehicles cordoned the house of Ammar al-Dulaimi, a correspondent for Reuters in Ramadi, and Marines raided his house and scattered his papers and equipment," a police source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

The source said "the Marines arrested the journalist and confiscated his possessions including a camera," adding the journalist "was taken to the U.S. base of al-Warrar in western Ramadi."

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