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[Filmmakermagazine.com] Filmmaker Magazine: Blog: I'm watching as I'm blogging here about Ted Koppel's interview with Cyrus Kar, an American documentary filmmaker who was held in an American detention center in Iraq for 55 days after the cab he was riding in was pulled over. When U.S. soldiers found a collection of washing machine timers in the cab's trunk, suddenly his camera equipment, microphone wires and the cab driver's timers all seemed elements of potential Improvised Explosive Devices.

[Ragingblog.com] THE GOOD NEWS IS, YOUR PASSPORT WAS GENUINE ... - Charles ...: It took serendipity for Cyrus Kar's sister to learn that the aspiring filmmaker was being held in Iraq by American forces. But it was no accident when he .

 [Msnbc.msn.com] US Filmmaker Describes Imprisonment in Iraq - Newsweek: World News ...: Skip navigationpd_top('Story','html40','8553371','”˜Not an Enemy Combatant’','After nearly two months of detention at a U.S. military jail in Iraq, Iranian American filmmaker Cyrus Kar describes the betrayal he felt and his feelings about American soldiers.','Newsweek Home','World News','','','1','13:31, 12/07/05','Babak Dehghanpisheh','vmedium','','','3037903','70004','', '1',0);pd_om('msnbcom','100');

 [Mypetjawa.mu.nu] The Jawa Report: 5 Suspected American Traitors Nabbed in Iraq: Wilson told them weeks ago that Kar's story had checked out, that he had passed a government polygraph test and that he had been cleared of any charges.Unfortunately, lie detectors are almost never used to clear any one of any crime. They are often used on suspects and as ground for further investigation, but rarely are they used to release some one already in custody.

 [Stevegilliard.blogspot.com] THE NEWS BLOG: The two men were arrested after the taxi in which they were riding was stopped at a checkpoint near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, and a search of the vehicle turned up 35 washing-machine timers, devices that military officials said were sometimes used by Iraqi insurgents in making bombs.

 [Everything Between] L.A. Filmmaker Sues Rumsfeld Over Detention in... : In the first civil case challenging U.S. detention policies in Iraq, an Iranian-American filmmaker who was imprisoned in Abu Ghraib and other facilities for 55 days without charge sued Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking military officials.

[My Buffalo River Home] Is ANYONE in charge? American filmmaker detained... : Even though FBI agents cleared him of suspicion, he did not have access to an attorney and was able to make only a few short phone calls to his family. And the US military did nothing to send him home even after a military panel recommended his immediate release, according to the court papers.

 [Fergie's Tech Blog] L.A. Filmmaker Sues U.S. Over Iraq Detention: Cyrus Kar, 45, of Los Feliz was freed a year ago, just days after the American Civil Liberties Union sued seeking his release. The new lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, seeks damages for Kar and broad changes in the government's detention policies.

 [Gall & Wormwood] Attention-hungry weasels: Kar ”” prolonged arbitrary detention without charge, the systematic denial of access to counsel, and the absence of any court in which to challenge the legality of his detention ”” are the norm for thousands of persons held in U.S. military detention in Iraq," the suit asserts, citing reports by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Amnesty International.Maybe I'm a little slow this morning, but last time I checked there's still a war going on in Iraq. It seems pretty obvious that when you've got large groups of people in uniform with oversized ordnance in hand you can pretty much expect that they're running the show, and that squalling about your Miranda 'rights' isn't going to cut much ice.

 [ReBelle Nation] Filmmaker Sues Rumsfeld Over Iraq Detention: A Los Angeles filmmaker today sued Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other high-ranking military officials, alleging they violated his civil rights, international law and the Geneva Convention by imprisoning him for 55 days in Iraq last year.

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