(RSF/IFEX) – Two people have been arrested in Abu Ghraib, 20 km west of Baghdad, for the 11 March 2006 murder of Al-Iraqiya television station director Amjad Hameed Hassan and his driver Anwar Turki. The arrests follow the appearance of a message from the Mujahideen Consultative Council (MCC) on its website, claiming responsibility for the […]
(RSF/IFEX) – Two people have been arrested in Abu Ghraib, 20 km west of Baghdad, for the 11 March 2006 murder of Al-Iraqiya television station director Amjad Hameed Hassan and his driver Anwar Turki. The arrests follow the appearance of a message from the Mujahideen Consultative Council (MCC) on its website, claiming responsibility for the killings. Its authenticity could not be confirmed.
Dominated by the Iraqi wing of Al-Qaeda, the MCC said in the message: “Your brothers in the military wing of the Mujahideen Council murdered Amjad Hameed Hassan, the director of Al-Iraqiya . . . We consider this TV station to be the mouthpiece of the government . . . always ready to broadcast lies about jihad and the mujahideen to please the crusaders.”
Hassan and his driver were gunned down in the west Baghdad neighbourhood of Amariyah as he was going to work, according to interior ministry sources and Al-Iraqiya. A total of 85 journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war in 2003.
