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Two Iraqi journalists shot dead in Mosul
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 04:59 PM [Kods Time]
Two Iraqi journalists working for the national newspaper As-Safeer have been shot dead this week in the northern city of Mosul, the chief editor said Wednesday.
Two Iraqi journalists working for the national newspaper As-Safeer have been shot dead this week in the northern city of Mosul, the chief editor said Wednesday.
Mosul bureau Chief Firas Maadidi was killed Tuesday evening, Hussein Juburi employee in the paper told news agencies. Police said he was shot outside his home.
On Sunday, a woman reporter, Hind Ismaeel, was also killed, Juburi said.
"Our newspaper has no links with any political party. We are an independent national newspaper," Juburi said.
Maadidi was killed by unidentified gunmen and Ismaeel by a man wearing a police uniform, Juburi said, adding that he had no idea who was behind the killings.
On Monday, Iraqi journalist Fakher Haidar al-Tamimi, who worked for foreign media in the southern city of Basra, was shot dead after being taken from his home overnight by men claiming to be policemen.
These deaths bring to 70 the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003 and the 21st this year, according to a toll based on figures from the Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders.
Source: al-Manar Television
On Sunday, a woman reporter, Hind Ismaeel, was also killed, Juburi said.
"Our newspaper has no links with any political party. We are an independent national newspaper," Juburi said.
Maadidi was killed by unidentified gunmen and Ismaeel by a man wearing a police uniform, Juburi said, adding that he had no idea who was behind the killings.
On Monday, Iraqi journalist Fakher Haidar al-Tamimi, who worked for foreign media in the southern city of Basra, was shot dead after being taken from his home overnight by men claiming to be policemen.
These deaths bring to 70 the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003 and the 21st this year, according to a toll based on figures from the Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders.
Source: al-Manar Television
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In a move which is likely to provoke a debate on state controls of the media, the commission warns that journalists pose "specific risks" in the fight against "violent radicalisation". The paper - Violent Radicalisation and Terrorism Recruitment - warns that the media are taking an over-simplified view of the world, which plays into terrorist hands.
"Some media disseminate propaganda which contributes to violent radicalisation," the commission says. "Typically this conveys a reductionist and conspiratorial world view where inequity and oppression are dominant ... Some form of self-regulation principle or code of conduct ... might be beneficial."
The commission also accuses the media of playing a role in helping terrorists recruit by allowing contacts between "radicalised individuals" on the internet and acting inadvertently as messengers for terrorists. "The media are the main vehicle through which [terrorism] attempts to affect citizens and leaders alike," the commission says. "Journalists face the difficult responsibility of reconciling their duty to inform the public with the need not to facilitate the aims of terrorists."
The warning to Europe's media will be issued today by Franco Frattini, the vice-president of the commission, when he outlines a 12-page proposal calling on the EU to agree a Europe-wide strategy to tackle terrorism. Mr Frattini, a close ally of the rightwing Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, offers to host a conference with the media this year to discuss his criticisms.
Mr Frattini takes a tougher approach with internet service providers who must do more to end incitement, which he says happens "on a daily basis" on websites. "The growth in use of the internet enables people ... to create networks through which it becomes easy to incite racial and religious hatred and also coordinate terrorist actions," the document says.
One striking proposal is a call for people to refrain from talking about Islamic terrorism. In an attempt to ensure that the vast majority of peaceful Muslims are not portrayed as terrorist sympathisers, the paper says: "The commission believes there is no such thing as 'Islamic terrorism', nor 'Catholic', nor 'red' terrorism ... The fact that some individuals unscrupulously attempt to justify their crimes in the name of a religion or ideology cannot be allowed in any way ... to cast a shadow upon such a religion or ideology."
The criticisms of the media are contained in a draft drawn up in July, but seen by the Guardian. It has since been refined. Mr Frattini's office said the latest version is tougher in one key area - it names the al-Manar satellite station, run by Hizbullah in Lebanon, as an outlet for terrorist propaganda. The station has been banned in France, the Netherlands and Spain.
29-06-2005
The Spanish-owned Hispasat and Spanish authorities have banned Hizbullah's al-Manar television from being broadcast to Latin America.
The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism, and Commerce, which oversees the state-owned Hispasat, announced on June 29, that al-Manar had been removed from broadcast as of June 23.
Al-Manar has been removed from four satellite providers and is no longer broadcast to the United States, Canada, and now South America. Although two European satellite providers (France's Eutelsat and The Netherlands' New Skies Satellite) dropped al-Manar, it still reaches Europe through Saudi-owned Arabsat and Egyptian-owned Nilesat, which also broadcast it to the Middle East and North Africa. Asiasat, based in Hong Kong, broadcasts al-Manar in Asia. France-based GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, supplied al-Manar to Hispasat and continues to supply it to Asiasat. Although American companies have stopped advertising on al-Manar, a number of European companies continue to run ads on the station.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/news.aspx