What the hell is going on over there? Even Bush hasn't gone this far (yet) but his team in Iraq is falling apart quickly. If the media doesn't make a stink about this one (which was burried well inside another article) we're all in deep trouble.
Iraqi police angered by news coverage of the standoff around the Imam Ali Mosque rousted journalists from their hotel at gunpoint Wednesday night and took them to hear police chief al-Jazairi criticize their reporting.
About 50 journalists were taken to police headquarters, including representatives of CNN, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Agence France-Presse and several U.S. newspapers. Iraqi police officials have expressed anger that journalists pay too much attention to al-Sadr and not enough to the police.
When the journalists were returned to their hotel many found their rooms had been ransacked, and some reported small amounts of money missing.
Najaf Gov. Adnan al-Zurufi later sent a bus to the hotel to collect journalists so he could deliver an apology, but the journalists refused to go.
