You may remember that the Iraqi puppet council closed down the offices of Al-Arabiya TV (Saudi-funded and largely pro-American conservative station) in Iraq because it dared to air a tape of Saddam Husayn. When the decision was announced, it came under criticisms from people advocating freedom of the press. The US colonial administration in Iraq said that it had nothing to do with the decision, and that it was purely an Iraqi puppet decision. Well, yesterday, the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported that (based on a source in the puppet council) the decision was an American decision and was taken days before the Iraqi puppet council announced it.