7.07.2005
US Detains Five Americans in Iraq (news.BBC.co.uk)
Thursday, 7 July, 2005, 06:34 GMT 07:34 UK
The Pentagon has confirmed that five US citizens are being held in Iraq on suspicion of having links to insurgents or other criminal activity.
The detainees have not been charged, and have not had access to a lawyer. A Pentagon spokesman declined to release their names.
However, one was identified by his family as Cyrus Kar, an Iranian-US film-maker and US navy veteran.
A US human rights group is suing the US government for his release.
The US spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said he had been found in a car which was also carrying several dozen washing machine timers - components that can be used in making bombs.
Officials said he was arrested with a cameraman and a taxi driver.
(More ... BBC NEWS | Middle East | US detains five Americans in Iraq) ¶ 21:12
The Pentagon has confirmed that five US citizens are being held in Iraq on suspicion of having links to insurgents or other criminal activity.
The detainees have not been charged, and have not had access to a lawyer. A Pentagon spokesman declined to release their names.
However, one was identified by his family as Cyrus Kar, an Iranian-US film-maker and US navy veteran.
A US human rights group is suing the US government for his release.
The US spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said he had been found in a car which was also carrying several dozen washing machine timers - components that can be used in making bombs.
Officials said he was arrested with a cameraman and a taxi driver.
(More ... BBC NEWS | Middle East | US detains five Americans in Iraq) ¶ 21:12
