Bilal Hussein was part of an AP team which won the Pulitzer prize |
The US military says it will recommend criminal charges against an Associated Press photographer detained in 2006 on suspicion of helping Iraqi insurgents.
The Pentagon says additional evidence has come to light proving Bilal Hussein is a "terrorist media operative" who infiltrated the news agency.
The case will be passed to Iraqi judges who will decide if he should be tried.
AP says its own investigation has found no evidence that he was anything but an Iraqi journalist working in a war zone.
The agency's lawyers say they have been denied access to Mr Hussein and the evidence against him, making it impossible to build a defence.
There's a new leadership in the defence department, but the same callous disregard from justice
Tom Curley
AP PresidentAP's president and chief executive officer Tom Curley told the BBC he believed the US military simply wished to keep Mr Hussein in jail as long as possible.
He said the US did not want news coming out of Anbar province, which he called an "information black hole".
