August 26, 2004
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Wed Aug 25, 4:51 PM ET
Iraqi policemen rounded up dozens of journalists at gunpoint in a Najaf hotel and took them to police headquarters before later releasing them.
Firing their guns in the air, the dozen odd policemen, some masked, stormed into the rooms of journalists in the Najaf Sea hotel and forced them into vans and a truck. An AFP correspondent, who was also forced into a van, said the police pushed and pulled many reporters at gunpoint.
The reporters were taken to the office of the police chief. "You people are not under arrest," Najaf police chief Ghaleb al-Jezari told them. "You are brought here because I want to tell you that you never publish the truth. I speak the truth, but you never broadcast what we are."
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Oookay.
hmm...
I don't know much about politics and such, because well, it just doesn't interested me. And since Stacy's the only one that talks about it, I know only of one side, but not the other. So I decided that I should become less ignorant and go to the library to read magazines on such things, but I didn't last an hour.
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