The Weekly Standard
is saying that the people of Iraq are enjoying freedom of speech in the press and on the air for the first time in decades. But advocating bank robbery doesn't seem to fall in the "free speech" category:
Bremer's office has also closed Sawt Baghdad (Voice of Baghdad), a Baghdad radio station, because of its ties to Mohamed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, the self-proclaimed "mayor of Baghdad." (Al-Zubaidi had been encouraging people to rob Baghdad's banks.) In another incident, a newspaper in Najaf associated with the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq was shut down for making inflammatory comments, too. But the vast majority of the Iraqi press has followed coalition guidelines.
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