lennart
29-07-03, 12:56
US troops 'manhandle' reporter
From correspondents in Tokyo
July 28, 2003
A JAPANESE reporter was manhandled and briefly detained by US troops in Baghdad after filming their weekend raid on a house in search for ousted president Saddam Hussein, Japanese press reports said.
Kazutaka Sato, 47, was held in an arm-lock, thrown to the ground and kicked by several US soldiers Sunday when he was filming the bodies of Iraqis being removed from a car which was shot up in the raid, the reports said.
Sato suffered slight injuries to his face and hands, the Kyodo news agency and the newspaper Asahi reported from Baghdad. He had his hands tied and was detained for about one hour.
When members of the Western media approached, Sato was released and his camera, which had been confiscated, was handed back to him, the Asahi said.
Five Iraqis died in the the night raid in the wealthy Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour, according to an AFP report from Baghdad.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C4057%2C6826505%255E1702%2C00.html
From correspondents in Tokyo
July 28, 2003
A JAPANESE reporter was manhandled and briefly detained by US troops in Baghdad after filming their weekend raid on a house in search for ousted president Saddam Hussein, Japanese press reports said.
Kazutaka Sato, 47, was held in an arm-lock, thrown to the ground and kicked by several US soldiers Sunday when he was filming the bodies of Iraqis being removed from a car which was shot up in the raid, the reports said.
Sato suffered slight injuries to his face and hands, the Kyodo news agency and the newspaper Asahi reported from Baghdad. He had his hands tied and was detained for about one hour.
When members of the Western media approached, Sato was released and his camera, which had been confiscated, was handed back to him, the Asahi said.
Five Iraqis died in the the night raid in the wealthy Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour, according to an AFP report from Baghdad.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0%2C4057%2C6826505%255E1702%2C00.html