Reuters photographer says reborn after freed by U.S.By Suadad al-Salhy
Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:19pm GMT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -
The U.S. military freed a Reuters photographer in Iraq on Wednesday, almost a year and a half after snatching him from his home in the middle of the night and holding him without charge.
The U.S. military never has said exactly why its forces detained Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed -- who worked for Reuters as a freelance TV cameraman and photographer -- and locked him away for so long, saying the evidence against him was classified."How can I describe my feelings? This is like being born again," Jassam told Reuters by telephone as he was greeted emotionally by his family.
U.S. and Iraqi forces smashed in the doors to Jassam's house in Mahmudiya town, south of Baghdad, in September 2008 and whisked him away.
He spent time in a desert prison on the Iraq-Kuwait border, called Camp Bucca, and the smaller Camp Cropper detention centre near Baghdad airport.
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