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EMBEDDED ART
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Impressum
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englisch
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Kunst im Namen der Sicherheit
Ausstellung der Akademie der Künste und der Künstlergruppe BBM
Installationen, Performances, Vorträge, Filmreihe
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, Berlin-Mitte
24.01.2009 - 22.03.2009
Di bis So, 11.00 - 20.00 Uhr
jeden Freitag ab 20.00 Uhr: "Bar zur Inneren Sicherheit"
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Projekt
Zahid Hussein
ARREST OF AL QAEDA LEADER RAMZI BIN AL SHIBH
On the first anniversary of 9/11, I was at home during the early hours of the day when I got an tip-off from a fellow journalist that a shooting was going on in the Defence Housing residential area between police and unknown persons. My first thought was that they could be robbers. But after an hour I got information that shooting was still going on and that persons hiding in the residential complex were using heavy weapons. That was unusual. Normally robbers do not have heavy weapons. I decided to visit the area.
The sun had risen and while driving, I called my Reuters bureau chief and informed him that I was heading to that spot.
As I was near to the area I heard sounds of heavy firing. I parked my bike in a lane near to a barricade erected by police to stop onlookers. After asking a policeman there, I got the right location of the complex, just behind the lane where I parked my bike. By taking position behind a police vehicle parked less than 400 feet away from the building where people were returning fire to the police, I started taking pictures. Policemen taking positions on the street, behind their vehicles, on the rooftops of the surrounding buildings. Policemen loading their guns with fresh bullets.
After an hour or so Rangers (paramilitary soldiers) were called out and they started arriving. I continued shooting pictures. After some time officials ordered photographers to leave the area as they were planning to use their commandos to enter the flat from where fire was still spreading. All photographers were leaving the area but I decided not to leave and resisted.
After some time I saw Rangers bringing out a blindfolded person who was arrested in the flat. I just forced my way through dozens of rangers and took some shots of him as he was escorted to a police van. Some of soldiers pushed me away but I tried to remain close and continued shooting of the person who I thought at that time looked like an Arab.
A couple more people were arrested from the flat and I took their pictures.
Then it was over. I called my colleagues and told them the story so they could file what I saw. Then I rushed to my Reuters office to file pictures.
A police chief news conference in the afternoon revealed that the person was al-Qaida number three Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
The pictures were widely published all over the world and I got a special bonus from my company Reuters.
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