Paris: Reporters without Borders accuses US to commit war crimes

These are war crimes," he told at the RSF press conference in Paris. "We’re not trying to equate the USA, a great democracy, with Saddam Hussein’s regime which executed 500 journalists and intellectuals between 1979 et 2003," he added. The group said in its annual report that these were
dark times for press freedom adding that the number of journalists taken in for questioning has increased by almost 40 percent, while the number assaulted or threatened has doubled since 2001.