On the other hand, this could be fun

This is also from the Iraqi Press Monitor, this time for March 31 and the newspaper quoted is the daily Al-Mashriq, published by Al-Mashriq Institution for Media and Cultural Investments.

Iraqi journalists have made a legal claim against top civil administrator L. Paul Bremer for dissolving the former Ministry of Information (MI) after the fall of the old regime. The legal case, which has been delivered to the Administrative Judiciary Court in the Ministry of Justice (MJ), claimed Bremer had dissolved the MI without any legal basis, and must therefore present himself to the Court on April 21 either to cancel that order or to stop applying it. Al-Mashriq was informed that some lawyers have been following up on the case with the concerned bodies. The Court informed Bremer of the content of the case and the date of the trial. It is worth mentioning that Bremer dissolved the MI shortly after the fall of the regime, leaving more than 6,000 Iraqi families without a decent livelihood.

Sidebar: In a March 27 article on the struggles of members of the newly "free" Iraqi media to understand and meet their responsibilities as journalists, Aljazeera quoted Hamid Abid Sarhan, a journalist at al-Mashriq, as saying

the new Iraqi media is far from the success story the Americans claim.

Al-Mashriq, which enjoys a readership of 25,000, was set up three months ago and claims to be "independent". However, Sarhan says it is also fiercely anti-occupation.

He told Aljazeera.net: "All the new Iraqi newspapers should show the world what the Iraqis are suffering under American occupation. There is no democracy and freedom here."

And he said the press is not as free as most people think.

"It is dangerous if you write something bad about the Americans. They don't allow you to criticise them too harshly. So there is still censorship but of a different kind."

He added: "Many of the papers are owned by political parties and the viewpoint found in them is the viewpoint of the political parties. So Iraqis don't trust what they are reading."

And that's different from here exactly how?