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Arrests of Journalists: Is NATO Censoring Afghan War Coverage? -- News from Antiwar.com

Arrests of Journalists: Is NATO Censoring Afghan War Coverage? -- News from Antiwar.com: "Update 9/24: NATO has released the detained journalists, insisting that they determined they “were not considered a significant security threat.” Officials declined to clear them of accusations that they were in league with the Taliban, however.

Popular television station Al Jazeera today accused NATO of deliberately trying to suppress coverage of the rising violence in Afghanistan by arrested two of its cameramen and accusing them of being in league with the Taliban.

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