Barred! US military bans peace team members from Palestine Hotel

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Barred! US military bans peace team members from Palestine Hotel
Update, Electronic Iraq
17 April 2003
http://electronicIraq.net/news/677.shtml


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Above: Table at US military checkpoint at the entrance of the Palestine Hotel, home of the "United States' Civil Military Operations Center" in Baghdad and the location of the international press corps. (IPT)
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Less than 24 hours after issuing a press release highlighting the failures of the U.S. military's attempts to oversee humanitarian intervention in Iraq, Voices in the Wilderness was banned from meeting with the U.S. Civil Military Operations Center, or with international journalists working out of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.

If the freedom to critique U.S. policies in Iraq regarding humanitarian issues is being curtailed already, then exactly what does this mean for building "democracy" here?

http://electronicIraq.net/news/677.shtml