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Posted in: Friday Morning Open

80 dhg411/21/2008 11:39:05 am PST

WaPo editorial this morning about an honor accorded to Bilal Hussein by the CPJ.

Mr. Mwenda's courage is typical of CPJ award winners. Others being honored this year include photographer Bilal Hussein of the Associated Press, whom the U.S. military imprisoned in Iraq for two years without charges; Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad, who run a news agency in Afghanistan, one of the world's most dangerous places for reporters, and especially for female reporters such as Ms. Nekzad; Beatrice Mtetwa, a lawyer who has defended journalists against the vicious persecution of President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe; and Cuban journalist Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez.


(emphasis mine)
No mention about the killings on Haifa Street. No mention of the staged shots.

Is there a Committee to Protect Election Workers? The CPJ, by honoring Hussein is effectively acting as the Committee to Protect Terrorists.