Iraq Issues Arrest Warrant For Journalist Who Wrote Fake Massacre Story
Here’s the whole story on the AP-like fake massacre scandal that broke over the last couple days. Maybe he and the AP’s Bilail “The Beheader’s Apprentice” Hussein will end up sharing a lifelong cell.
Baghdad, Nov 29, (VOI) – The Iraqi Ministry of Interior on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for a journalist who claimed that his 11-member family had been slain by unknown gunmen in Baghdad a few days ago.
“The issue has been referred to court,” an official ministerial spokesman, Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI), in reference to Diaa al-Kawwaz, an Iraqi journalist who claimed that his family had been liquidated and pointed the finger at the security apparatus.
“Al-Kawwaz will be sued by the Iraqi court for making false allegations against our security forces,” Khalaf added.
When asked about the motivations behind al-Kawwaz’s claim, Khalaf said that an investigation is underway to determine all details.
Al-Kawwaz, an Iraqi journalist residing in the Jordanian capital Amman and the editor-in-chief of the Shabakat Akhbar al-Iraq (Iraq News Network), said on Monday that his 11-member family was killed by unidentified gunmen during a raid on his house in Baghdad’s northern area of al-Shaab.
Members from the family denied the news and said they had repudiated al-Kawwaz for making the allegation, a source from the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) said on Wednesday.
“The observatory recognized this fact after contacting the family of Diaa al-Kawwaz and Kut Governor Adel al-Tarfa, who denied attending the funeral services allegedly held by al-Kawwaz in the city,” a JFO source told VOI by phone.
The observatory further revealed that the funeral services allegedly held by al-Kawwaz for his family were for an old man called Hamid Khamees al-Aameri, who died in his house in Kut.
Established in 2003 after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the JFO, a non-governmental Iraqi organization that monitors violations and aggression against media staff in Iraq, revealed that 218 media workers, including 112 journalists, have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
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F*ck yea! Go after them! It is a shame our politicians are to busy sucking on each other to prosecute enemies of the state who lie in the media.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:04 pmWho says Iraq’s democracy isn’t advancing? Our Congressional Reid-Pelosi clowns wd prefer to prosecute security guards who maybe/not over-reacted in a street firefight, not some sick traitor like Plame, Wilson, Agee, etc. who coolly sit back and plan and committ treason.
We can take a page out of Iraq’s book!
[Jeez, does anyone else find that Ranger-Up brunette honey to the right as distracting as I do? OOOWWWWCH!!]
November 29th, 2007 at 4:15 pmGood for them. Maybe they should put out a warrant for Murtha, too.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:39 pm