Informed Comment

Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion

Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Monday, November 24, 2003

US arrests Newspaper Editor

The US forces in Mosul have arrested Dhunun Yunis, the editor in chief of a local weekly newspaper, on charges of cooperating with Baath remnants and with using the newspaper to serve the interests of the former regime. Col. Tariq Hamid of the Mosul police said that Yunis confessed to the charges, saying that he had devoted many pages to the activities that support attacks on US forces.

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