Free Press in a New Iraq
The enforcement of an order to shut down Al-Jazeera's news office in Baghdad is a peculiar step toward a free and democratic Iraq. Newly appointed Prime Minister Iyad Allawi defended the move saying that it was "a decision taken by the national security committee to protect the people of Iraq, in the interests of the Iraqi people." I'm still trying to understand how kicking out the Arab world's largest independent media outlet is in the interests of the Iraqi people.