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US military in Iraq frees Reuters journalist
The US military in Iraq freed an Iraqi freelance journalist working for the Thomson Reuters media group on Wednesday after holding him for 17 months without charge, the company said.
"How can I describe my feelings? This is like being born again," Reuters quoted 33-year-old Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed as saying by telephone, adding that he was greeted emotionally by his family.
The journalist told AFP he was "very happy" to be free.
Mohammed, a freelance photographer and video cameraman for Reuters, was arrested after US and Iraqi forces broke into his home in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, in September 2008.
A US army statement said at the time that Mohammed had been "assessed to be a threat to the security of Iraq and coalition forces."
But no charges were ever brought against him.