Sunday, July 18, 2004

The thug believes in freedom of the press

At least that's what he says, as he removes Bremer's ban on al-Sadr's newspaper.

"The Hawza newspaper was allowed to be published again pursuant to an order by the US appointed Prime Minister [Allawi], who has expressed his absolute belief in free press," according to an official statement.

The closure of the weekly paper by former US administrator Paul Bremer at the end of March and the arrest of one of al-Sadr's key aides were among the catalysts for an uprising by the Shia leader and his Mahdi Army against the occupation forces in central and southern Iraq that lasted nearly two months.
Aljazeera article

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