Al-Jazeera reporter detained

Dutch peacekeepers in Kabul detained, blindfolded and interrogated two correspondents of the Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera, who were trying to film outside a peacekeeping base just after an attack.

Sayed Hashmatolla Moslih, a staff cameraman and naturalised Australian citizen, said he and Wali Shaeen, an Afghan correspondent, were detained on Thursday six hours inside a compound of the 4,800-strong multinational force.

Moslih said despite showing all the proofs the soldiers asked questions like, “where is Osama bin Laden” and “do you know Laden or Mullah Omar”? He alleged peacekeepers stood on his forearms, dug boot heels and pushed the barrels of their weapons into his body.