Nicole linked this story the other day on the AP photographer--Bilal Hussein, who is still being detained in Iraq. Will Bunch has the goods on the Cu
September 17, 2006

roveears13.jpg Nicole linked this story the other day on the AP photographer--Bilal Hussein, who is still being detained in Iraq. Will Bunch has the goods on the Cult of Bush.

I don't know whether an Iraqi photojournalist named Bilal Hussein [..]-- a member of the Associated Press team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for its breathtaking pictures of the fighting there -- has any connection to the anti-U.S. insurgency there.

Neither does Powerline, Michelle Malkin, or any of the other right-wing bloggers so eager to convict Hussein, who has been held in captivity by the U.S. military for five months now without any charges lodged against him.

But the lack of any criminal charges -- let alone much information about what Bilal Hussein did to merit five months behind bars -- hasn't stopped these wingers from convicting him, and the Associated Press along with it, of being a terrorist....read on

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