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Thursday, August 26, 2004
Oh, yeah, it's the press that's the problem:Najaf police round up reportersIraqi police, angered by news coverage of the standoff around the Imam Ali Mosque, rousted journalists from their hotel at gunpoint Wednesday night and took them to hear Chief Ghaleb al-Jazaeri criticize their reporting.
About 50 journalists were taken to police headquarters, including representatives of CNN, the British Broadcasting Corp., Agence France-Presse and several U.S. newspapers.
Iraqi police officials have expressed anger that journalists pay too much attention to al-Sadr.
Al-Zurufi later sent a bus to the hotel to collect journalists so he could deliver an apology, but the journalists refused to go.
Via Americablog
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