“In Solidarity” with the “free press”

“The US army has many Iraqi journalists in their custody, the official number is eight but the number that we have is twenty three,” said Moaed Al-Hamdani, an Iraqi journalist and a member of the Iraqi Association of Journalists in Baghdad. “Some are photographers and some are print journalists.”

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Updated 9 February:
Danish paper cancels plans to republish cartoons about Israel
By Asaf Uni
Ha’aretz 9 February 2006

Meanwhile, a Jyllands-Posten’s editor said on CNN yesterday that he would cooperate with the Iranian daily Hamshahri, which announced a competition of cartoons on the Holocaust. However, the newspaper hastened to issue a denial.

Editor-in-chief Carsten Juste said the editor had been misunderstood. “On no account would we publish Holocaust caricatures together with the Iranian daily,” he said.

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