Iraq detains western journalists
BBC says as many as 10 journalists are being held by the Iraqi government.
Two journalists from the US newspaper Newsday have not been heard from for a week, while seven Italian journalists who went missing near the southern city of Basra have turned up in Baghdad. Newsday's reporter Matthew McAllester, 33, and photographer Moises Saman, 29, disappeared from their hotel in the Iraqi capital last Monday while covering the war. [...] The seven Italians, from several different newspapers, disappeared last Friday after trying to get into Basra to report on conditions there. Paolo Serventi Longhi of the National Italian Press Federation said they had been arrested by the Iraqi authorities and taken to Baghdad. [...] Freelance French-American photographer Molly Bingham, who like the Newsday journalists was said to be being deported, is also reported to be missing. - BBC, Journalists 'held by Iraqis'.