Censorship of the press: a familiar story for Iraqis

Two months after 'liberating' Iraq, the Anglo-US authorities have decided to control the new, free press

By Robert Fisk - 11 June 2003

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Paul Bremer has ordered his legal department in Baghdad to draw up rules for press censorship. A joke, I concluded, when one of the newly styled Coalition Provisional Authority officials tipped me off last week. But no, it really is true. Two months after "liberating" Iraq, the Anglo-American authorities and their boss Paul Bremer - whose habit of wearing combat boots with a black suit continues to amaze his colleagues - have decided to control the new and free Iraqi press.

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