AP Still Awaiting Confiscated Video from U.S. MilitaryAssociated Press spokesman Jack Stokes confirms today that the AP still hasn’t received a videotape confiscated by U.S. troops on Wednesday.
Lt. Colonel Scott Bleichwehl told the AP that the footage — shot in the aftermath of a Baghdad bombing that wounded the Polish ambassador — would be returned to the news organization “shortly,” in the AP’s paraphrase. The cameraman who shot the footage was detained by an unnamed U.S. unit for about 40 minutes, with no reason provided to him or the news organization.
Bleichwehl has yet to respond to two emails requesting comment about the episode, nor has Multi-National Corps-Iraq spokesman Lt. Colonel James Hutton.