Blue Herald
09
Apr
A Little Good News For A Change
by Buck • 9:13 pm

From Harpers:

Bilal Hussein Exonerated

AP Photographer Bilal Hussein has been in American detention since April 2006. As the second anniversary of his captivity approaches, Bilal has achieved a major breakthrough. Yesterday in Baghdad, an Iraqi Judicial Commission reviewing his case took ten days to reach a conclusion: No basis existed for the terrorism-related charges which had been brought against him. The conclusion was a sweeping repudiation of accusations U.S. military figures have brought against him, backed by no evidence, but by a handful of strangely motivated American wingnut bloggers. [...]

Yesterday’s decision in any event may put the Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photojournalist one step closer to freedom.



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