AP photog imprisoned by US military as ‘security threat’

The U.S. military in Iraq continues to hold an Associated Press photographer as a prisoner, five months after his arrest for being a “security threat.” Bilal Hussein, a native Iraqi, was arrested along with two insurgents. In an article at Wired, the man in charge of military operations in Iraq, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jack Gardner, is quoted as emailing the AP that Hussein “…has relationships with insurgents and is afforded access to insurgent activities outside the normal scope afforded to journalists conducting legitimate activities.” AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll says that journalists develop contacts on all sides of battle, and that merely being in their presence does not mean collaboration. “Journalists have always had relationships with people that others might find unsavory,” says Carroll.