The Iraqi government has shut down TV broadcaster Alhurra's offices in the country and suspended its license after it aired a report some describe as investigative journalism and others claim was a US-engineered attack on Iraq's religious institutions.
Alhurra is a US government-funded, Arabic-language satellite broadcaster based in the United States. In late August, it ran an investigative piece alleging corruption within Iraq's Sunni and Shiite religious endowments. The report, "Religious Corruption in Iraq," talked of out-of-control institutions that hide under shrine's domes and religious turbans.
