Journalist, translator missing (in Nasiriyah, Iraq)

[LittleApple81]

Journalist, translator missing
From correspondents in Baghdad
17aug04

A US journalist has disappeared along with his Iraqi translator in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, the provincial deputy governor said today.
The two went missing on Friday in Nasiriyah as they were walking through a busy market, said Adnan al-Shoraify, deputy governor of Dhi Qar province. He said the translator's family had first reported the two missing.
Mr Shoraify identified the journalist as Micah Garen and said he worked for US-based Four Corners Media. He said the Iraqi's name was Amir Doushi.
According to its website, the group is a "documentary organisation working in still photography, video and print media" that is working in Iraq. The website said Mr Garen was one of the organisation's managers, and shows a portfolio of his photos in Iraq.
Mr Shoraify said Mr Garen was working on a project involving antiquities near Nasiriyah.
In New Haven, Connecticut, Mr Garen's father Alan said the 33-year-old had been working in Iraq for about two months as a freelance journalist. He couldn't confirm his son was missing, saying only that "I haven't heard anything for several days."


more at link:
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10470231%255E401,00.html

[iconoclastic cat]

1. So it looks like the U.S. and Allawi are making good on their threats.

Not that I'm surprised.

[Wright Patman]

2. I don't want to be a pessimist,

but if Micah is by any chance Jewish, it will have been automatically assumed by the Iraqis who may have abducted him that he is working for the Mossad.