Us Arrests Newspaper Editor Us Forces

Juan Cole 11/24/2003

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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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page