From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HERB KEINON | The Jerusalem Post | 21 April 2005 Israeli officials expressed dismay this week that BBC reporter Orla Guerin, who has come under sharp attack for what some perceive as an anti-Israeli bias in her coverage, will receive an MBE honor from the British government for "outstanding service to broadcasting." Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky, who last year wrote a formal letter of complaint to the BBC over Guerin's coverage, said it is a pity that a lack of anti-Semitism was not a criterion for the award.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) MARIA SANMINIATELLI | AP/Yahoo! | 6 March 2006 ROME - The freed Italian hostage wounded by American troops at a checkpoint in Baghdad shortly after her release said in an article Sunday that her Iraqi captors had warned her U.S. forces "might intervene." Giuliana Sgrena, who writes for the communist newspaper Il Manifesto, described how she was wounded and Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was killed as she was celebrating her freedom on the way to the airport.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reporters Without Borders | 15 January 2004 Reporters Without Borders called today for the reopening of the enquiry into who was really responsible for the US Army's "criminal negligence" in shooting at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad on 8 April 2003 and causing the death of two journalists - Ukrainian cameramen Taras Protsyuk (of Reuters news agency) and Spaniard José Couso (of the Spanish TV station Telecinco).
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sascha Meinrath | UCIMC.ORG | 7 October 1994 FBI took the hard drives of Global IMC servers in the USA and the UK. It appears that a court order was issued to Rackspace (Indymedia's service provider with offices in the US and in London) to physically remove the hard drives from Global Indymedia servers (backup servers are now in place). Rackspace was given no time to defend against the order before it was acted upon and turned over the hard drives, both in the US and the UK.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Marc Sage | Scotsman.com | 22 September 2004 Cat Stevens should never have been detained and deported from the United States, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told his American counterpart tonight. Mr Straw, in New York for meetings at the UN, told Secretary of State Colin Powell that the action “should not have been taken”. The singer, who converted to Islam and changed his name to Yusuf Islam in the 1970s, was branded a terrorist supporter by the US Government.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) IFJ | 13 September 2004 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed protests by journalists in the Palestinian territories over the killing yesterday of Mazen Al-Tomaizi, a television journalist, when a United States helicopter fired on a crowd in Baghdad after insurgents attacked a military vehicle. New IFJ Demand for Inquiry As Deadly Missile Strike Highlights US Role in Iraq Media Killings The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed protests by journalists in the Palestinian territories over the killing yesterday of Mazen Al-Tomaizi, a television journalist, when a United States helicopter fired on a crowd in Baghdad after insurgents attacked a military vehicle.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PATRICK COCKBURN | CounterPunch | 13 September 2004 "I am a journalist. I'm dying, I'm dying," screamed Mazen al-Tumeizi, a correspondent for the Arabic television channel al-Arabiya, after shrapnel from a rocket fired by an American helicopter interrupted his live broadcast and slammed into his back. Twelve others were killed and 61 wounded by rockets from two US helicopters on Haifa Street in central Baghdad.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ewa Jasciewicz | The Guardian | 26 August 2004 Life for journalists wanting to report from Israel has just become harder. I was detained two weeks ago by the Israeli authorities while trying to enter the country in order to complete a number of commissions for the British magazine Red Pepper. I have been held in custody at Ben Gurion airport ever since, while appealing against deportation.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) IFJ | 9 August 2004 The International Federation of Journalists has criticised the interim government of Iraq over a month-long ban on the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, which it says is an act of “unacceptable and illogical censorship that casts a shadow over hopes for a new era of press freedom.’ The interim government ordered the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite television network to close its Baghdad office for one month at the weekend.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yoav Stern | Haaretz | 12 August 2004 Israel Defense Forces troops in the West Bank city of Nablus detained three British Broadcasting Corporation journalists and a Palestinian doctor at gunpoint for three hours Thursday before letting them go, BBC officials and the doctor said. The journalists, a television crew from the BBC, were accompanying the doctor, Ghassan Hamdan, as he visited an 80-year-old woman living in an apartment that had been commandeered by the army.