JihadTV Crew Arrested for the Third Time
Charles Johnson
Mon Jul 17, 2006 at 9:08 am PDT • Views: 201
Israel has arrested Al Jazeera reporters on suspicion of assisting Hizballah for the third time: Police detain Al Jazeera crew members for third time. (Hat tip: WriterMom.)
Police detained Al Jazeera crew members three times in twenty-four hours, the last being on Monday. The official cause for the brief arrests was suspicions against the crewmembers of reporting on the location of rocket hits in order to assist Hezbollah.
Other TV networks, including Israeli news services, made similar reports without suffering from police intervention. On Monday police detained Al Jazeera manager Walid al-Omri for reporting of rocket hits in the Upper Galilee village of Kfar Yasif. Al-Omri was also detained late on Sunday.
Also on Sunday police detained for questioning Al Jazeera correspondent Elias Karam and the team working with him in Acre. The team was released after an hour of questioning.
Why doesn’t Israel just expel JihadTV from their country? There’s absolutely no doubt whose side Al Jazeera is on.
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