FREEDOM AT LAST

Claire Cozens and agencies, in the Guardian, Thursday August 26, 2004

Media organisations are preparing a formal protest to the Iraqi authorities after dozens of journalists in Najaf, including the entire BBC team, were forced from their hotel at gunpoint and detained by local police.

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The police officer who burst into the Guardian's room, wearing a balaclava and pointing a Kalashnikov, said in Arabic: 'We're going to fuck the lot of you."