Iraqi Committee Demands Amnesty for AP Photog

Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held on terrorism-related charges by the U.S. military for the past two years, should go free, an Iraqi committee ruled today.

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An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him freed after nearly two years in U.S. military custody.

The decision by a four-judge panel says Hussein’s case falls under a new amnesty law and orders Iraqi courts to “cease legal proceedings.”

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