Armed men beat Iran TV crew in Iraq, take cameras

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TEHRAN, Sep 5 (Reuters)

Armed men beat up an Iranian state television camera crew in Iraq and took their equipment, Iranian state radio reported today, as relations sour between the neighbours who fought a bitter 1980-88 war.

It was unclear whether the assailants belonged to a particular faction, but Iranian state radio reported their equipment had been ''confiscated'' rather than stolen.

The crew from the IRIB state network was set upon in Latifiya south of Baghdad and forced to leave the area. ..

Mostafa Darban, the bureau chief of Iran's official news agency, was held for more than two weeks by Baghdad police last month.

[Catfight]

1. It was unclear if the assailants were from the RNC convention! n/t

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2. Did they pay the goons in lump sum or was it in payments

I thought I was making lite and punched up "Bush thugs for hire" and the first link :crazy:.

Validity strikes again

Have thugs will travel
Bush Administration puts former Hussein torturers, executioners, and rapists on America's payroll

In case you missed the latest from the White House:

On Sunday night, President Bush announced that major operations in the war against terrorism were over; Al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden has been captured in the mountains of Afghanistan; the Taliban's Mullah Omar has surrendered to an envoy from the Vatican; Iraq's Saddam Hussein was killed outside an ice-cream parlor in Tikrit; and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have been discovered buried under an apple tree near Ur, in what some believe was the site of the garden of Eden.

Bush pledged that democracy would be established in Iraq by Christmas and all U.S. troops would be home no later than Groundhog Day; to guarantee fair and free elections, the president announced they administration had cut a deal with the Diebold Co. for its touch-screen machines; Veteran's hospitals in the U.S. will not be closed; benefits for all soldiers serving oversees will be doubled immediately; and a plan for universal health care will soon be sent to Congress.
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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15603