U.S. forces arrest 4 media men in Diala.

Of course the U.S. did not ask for govt. permission to arrest this group. The U.S. is a law onto itself as an occupier of Iraq. No word lately on negotiations for a new mandate after the UN mandate expires. This is from aswataliraq.


U.S. forces arrest 4 media men in Diala

Diala - Voices of Iraq
Thursday , 08 /05 /2008 Time 3:19:12


Baaquba, May 7, (VOI)- Four Iraqi media men were arrested by U.S. forces in western Baaquba, the head of the administrative body of the Unified Media men Association in Baaquba said on Wednesday.
“U.S. forces raided the house of Hussein Rashied al-Azawi, a lecturer in the Faculty if Information and arrested him along with three media men; Adam Mahdi, Associated Press correspondent, Mohamed Wahieb, the BBC correspondent and Daham al-Ubeidi, the media official of the Diala University,” Omar al-Dulaimi told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq (VOI).He demanded the government to immediately intervene to free the detainees and put an end to the random arresting against several media men,” he added.For his part, Abdellatif Rayan, an MNF-Iraq media adviser, said that he has no information so far on the incident. The Baaquba-based Unified Media men Association includes more than 40 correspondents of local, Arab and international newspapers as well as news agencies and satellite channels.Baaquba, the capital of Diala, is 57 km northeast of Baghdad.