U.S. Troops Seize Acclaimed Iraqi Journalist
Award-winning reporter was investigating alleged U.S. misappropriation of Iraqi funds; bullets fired into a bedroom containing his wife, children | moreGuardian: American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children.
Ali Fadhil, who two months ago won the Foreign Press Association young journalist of the year award, was hooded and taken for questioning. He was released hours later. | more
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