Thursday, April 24, 2003

Foxnews: We Steal, You Decide

    Gathered news, loot

    Customs: Journalists smuggled Iraqi booty
    By DEREK ROSE
    DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

    Fox engineer Ben Johnson was found embedded with this Iraqi painting at Dulles Airport last week.

    It's not just liberated Iraqis who have looted Saddam Hussein's palaces - some sticky-fingered reporters are in hot water after making off with war booty.

    Fox News fired Ben Johnson, a satellite-truck engineer who is charged with smuggling 12 Iraqi paintings and undeclared Iraqi bonds into the U.S., the network said yesterday.

    Johnson, 27, of Alexandria, Va., admitted liberating the paintings of Saddam and his son Uday from the walls of their Baghdad palaces. He was busted at Dulles Airport near Washington last week.
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hmmmm...I can't seem to find it on Foxnews.com. Fair and balanced. We report, you decide. Uh-huh.

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