A judicial panel in Iraq has dismissed all charges against Bilal Hussein, the AP photographer who has been held by the US military for two years on vague, unsubstantiated charges of working with terrorists. The panel has ordered Hussein to be freed, presumably bringing his ordeal to an end. [Earlier]
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