Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: I liberatori chiudono settimanale Irakeno

Motivazione?   Scrive "bugie" che "incitano alla violenza".
Attendo la chiusura della stampa filo-guerra (in USA e da noi) con la
stessa
identica motivazione.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/international/worldspecial/29PRES.html?ex=1081530126&ei=1&en=d950015d69f39a3a
BG.I.'s Padlock Baghdad Paper Accused of LiesBy JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
 
AGHDAD, Iraq, March 28 - American soldiers shut down a popular Baghdad
newspaper on Sunday and tightened chains across the doors after the
occupation authorities accused it of printing lies that incited
violence.
 Thousands of outraged Iraqis protested the closing as an act of
American hypocrisy, laying bare the hostility many feel toward the
United States a year after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
 "No, no, America!" and "Where is democracy now?" screamed protesters
who hoisted banners and shook clenched fists in a hastily organized
rally against the closing of the newspaper, Al Hawza, a radical Shiite
weekly.
 The rally drew hundreds and then thousands by nightfall in central
Baghdad, where masses of angry Shiite men squared off against a line
of American soldiers who rushed to seal off the area.
 The closing of the newspaper illustrated the quandary Americans faced
in trying to strike a balance between their two main goals -
encouraging democracy while maintaining stability. But as the days
wind down to the June 30 target date for handing sovereignty back to
the Iraqi people, security seems increasingly elusive.
 On Sunday, the Iraqi public works minister narrowly escaped an
assassination attempt in the northern city of Mosul, and two foreign
workers were shot to death nearby in front of a power plant.
 Many Iraqis said closing down a popular newspaper at such a crucial
time would not curtail anti-occupation feelings but only inflame them.
 "When you repress the repressed, they only get stronger," said Hamid
al-Bayati, a spokesman for the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution
in Iraq, a prominent Shiite political party. "Punishing this newspaper
will only increase the passion for those who speak out against the
Americans."
 The American authorities said Al Hawza could reopen in 60 days. The
paper's editors, however, said they had been put out of business.
 "We have been evicted from our offices, and we have no jobs," Saadoon
Mohsen Thamad, a news editor, said as he stared at a large padlock
hanging from the front gate. "How are we going to continue?"
 Among Iraqi journalists, Al Hawza was known for printing wild rumors,
especially anti-American ones. A broadsheet of about eight pages, the
paper is considered a mouthpiece for Moktada al-Sadr, a fiery young
Shiite cleric and one of the most outspoken critics of the Americans.
 The letter ordering the paper closed, signed by L. Paul Bremer III,
the top administrator in Iraq, cited what the American authorities
called several examples of false reports in Al Hawza, including a
February dispatch that said the cause of an explosion that killed more
than 50 Iraqi police recruits was not a car bomb, as occupation
officials had said, but an American missile.
 Many newspapers and television stations have sprouted in Iraq since
the fall of the Hussein government. But under a law passed by the
occupying authorities in June, a news media organization must be
licensed, and that license can be revoked if the organization
publishes or broadcasts material that incites violence or civil
disorder or "advocates alterations to Iraq's borders by violent
means."
 But the letter outlining the reasons for taking action against Al
Hawza did not cite any material that directly advocated violence.
Several Iraqi journalists said that meant there was no basis to shut
Al Hawza down.
 "That paper might have been anti-American, but it should be free to
express its opinion," said Kamal Abdul Karim, night editor of the
daily Azzaman.
Omar Jassem, a freelance reporter, said he thought that democracy
meant many viewpoints and many newspapers. "I guess this is the Bush
edition of democracy," he said.
 Tom Rosenstiel, vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned
Journalists, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, said there
was a basic irony in Americans' practicing censorship in Iraq.
 "If you're trying to promote democracy in a country that has never
had it, you have to lead by example," Mr. Rosenstiel said. "I'm not in
Iraq. But it's hard for me to see how the suppression of information,
even false information, is going to help our cause."
 Many Iraqi journalists said they feared that closing Al Hawza would
only increase the support for Mr. Sadr, the 31-year-old son of a
revered Shiite cleric who was assassinated in 1999 by hit men working
for Mr. Hussein. In the prelude to the June 30 transfer of power, Mr.
Sadr has been increasingly abrasive, issuing statements denouncing
Americans and any Iraqis who work with them. Thousands of his
followers can be summoned to the streets at the snap of a finger, as
demonstrated Sunday.
 Unlike Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the influential Shiite cleric
who has also criticized the occupation but not in militant terms, Mr.
Sadr has threatened to form his own militia.
 The American authorities said that before they decided to close Mr.
Sadr's newspaper, they weighed the risks of further provoking him.
 "But we basically concluded that we couldn't afford to wait for
another issue to hit the streets," said Al Elsadr, the media liaison
for the occupation government. "The false information in that paper
was hurting stability. It was stirring up a lot of hate. It was making
people think we were out to get them."
 Mr. Elsadr said that incitement of violence could come in many forms
and that it did not have to be direct to be considered a violation of
the administrative law.
 "If people actually believed that coalition forces were slaughtering
civilians," he said, "it could be real dangerous. That's incitement."
 Mr. Elsadr said the occupation authorities had invited the paper's
editors to discuss with them what had been printed, but it was unclear
if the paper would be able to appeal the closing order.
 In July, the American authorities permanently closed down another
newspaper for similar reasons, provoking similar demonstrations. An
Arabic television network was suspended from broadcasting in Iraq for
30 days after coverage that was considered irresponsible.
 The protests outside the Hawza offices on Sunday faded with the day's
light. After the brief but tense standoff with American forces, Mr.
Sadr's followers rolled up their flags and climbed back into their
buses. No injuries or property damage were reported.

 Motivazione?   Scrive "bugie" che "incitano alla violenza".
Quindi fanno bene.

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Viva la liberta'!
Eia Eia Alalala'
GT


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 liberticida?
Sono in disaccordo con tale legge in quanto inutile (ha forse
impedito a partiti razzisti di andare al governo?  ), liberticida e
aperta
all'abuso (anche il pacifista Dino Frisullo e' stato condannato in
base
a "istigazione a odio razziale" in Turchia, per aver manifestato a
favore dei Curdi).
Tuttavia, il paragone non c'e:  Il quotidiano Irakeno non e' stato
accusato
di istigazione all'odio, ma di "scrivere bugie" (giudicate bugie da
chi?  Mamma
stato, come ai tempi di Saddam?)
GT

 stato, come ai tempi di Saddam?)
L'articolo parla di "bugie che incitano alla violenza", che e' esattamente
la stessa motivaizone utilizzata nella legge italiana, ovvero palle che
incitano all'odiuo razziale.
Casualmente un pezzo della citazione ti e' rimasto nella tastiera. :-))
andrea

 stato, come ai tempi di Saddam?
Saddam un socialdemocratico svedese? Mah.
Tb