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Nov. 25th, 2003 05:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedat the very very bottom of a very very long story about Our Fearless Leader and his visit to bereaved military families:
It's nice to be in a country with a free press, don't you think?
Some of the other countries we run aren't so lucky.
In another sign of a harder line coming from Baghdad, the Washington-appointed Iraqi Governing Council pulled the plug on the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television network yesterday, saying it would no longer be allowed to report from Baghdad until it agrees to stop "encouraging terrorism."
Its crime appeared to be airing an audio tape purported to have come from deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. It aired the audio tape, in which a voice calls for a holy war against occupying troops on Nov. 16. The CIA said it could not confirm the voice was, in fact, Saddam's.
"I would like to you know that we are serious in fighting terrorism and the Governing Council will exert more efforts," Jalal Talabani, current head of the council, told reporters in Baghdad. "We will have an active political, media and military role against terrorism."
CNN reported yesterday that it and the BBC had also been warned that they, too, could face sanctions if they did not toe the line.
It's nice to be in a country with a free press, don't you think?
Some of the other countries we run aren't so lucky.
