CBS Cameraman Arrested in Iraq

Iraqi citizens informed on CBS cameraman, leading to his arrest by coalition forces:

Greyhawk is all over this one!   Sisyphean Musings has the original post.

The Associated Press (AP) has this to say:

April 8, 2005, 2:30 PM EDT

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A cameraman carrying CBS press credentials was detained in Iraq earlier this week on suspicion of insurgent activity, the U.S. military said Friday...

...Officials are investigating the man's previous activities as well as "his alleged support of anti-Iraqi insurgency activities," the statement said.

What type of footage was this cameraman (and CBS) trying to obtain?  U.S. soldiers dying in a suicide attack?  Was CBS trying to create an Iraqi Tet?  (see previous post).  Not just CBS...the whole MSM/DNC apparatus?  Else, why try and embed with the terrorists?

Here is what CBS News has to say so far...video link here.

After watching the CBS video, I had to laugh when the reporter commented that the CBS cameraman carried an American press credential at great danger to himself. 

Yeah right...the "insurgents" know what happened in the American media after the 1968 Tet offensive.  It is called an "information war" stupid!  Images are part of enemy propaganda...which explains the Pulitzer prizes...

Pulitzer's Breaking News Photography Prize was awarded to the AP...seemingly glorifying "insurgent" activities (see Michelle Malkin's previous post)...one can only wonder what images the MSM/DNC were trying to capture and disseminate. 

But I digress...

<sarcasm>I'm sure we'll all hear more about the incident after Charles and Camilla are on their honeymoon...proof that there are always happier things to report. </sarcasm>

In the mean time, here is how Reporters Without Borders is trying to spin it (HT: Sisyphean Musings):

CBS freelance cameraman shot and wounded by US soldiers

Reporters Without Borders today called for a thorough and transparent investigation into an incident yesterday near the northern city of Mosul in which US soldiers shot and wounded a freelance cameraman working for the US television network CBS News.

"Once again the US forces have targeted a journalist just doing his job," the press freedom organization said. Reporters Without Borders pointed out that this was not the first time that US soldiers shot a cameraman after mistaking his camera for a gun.

The ghost of Easongate anyone?

Thanks to Sisyphus and Greyhawk for covering this...more to follow later.

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