Amy Goodman interviewed, this morning, a French journalist who was held and mistreated by the US military. A transcript of the full interview is available at Democracy Now. Here's a summary from Goodman:
He... was detained - for a day - by the US military. His ordeal in US custody begins in April 2004 in the besieged city of Fallujah. US forces picked Grégoire Deniau up in Fallujah where he and a photographer colleague were documenting the story of the siege of the city from the inside. At the time, he was the only Western journalist there. Deniau says he and the photographer were taken by US soldiers along with two Red Crescent workers. He says that US soldiers forced them to kneel for
hours, gaffer-taped hoods over their faces. Deniau says he showed the soldiers his passport, his ID and his French Press Identification. He says the soldiers hurled insults at him, called him a dog and accused him, as a Frenchmen, of being pro-Arab. When the US forces finally released them, they did so late at night, in the middle of the desert, and warned them that US forces shoot everything that moves.
Meanwhile, a Spanish judge is seeking to interview three members of the American military believed responsible for the murder of Spanish journalist, José Couso, at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. See this earlier post.
