Conservative websites are going after one of the reporters who broke the Haditha massacre:

Given the breathless coverage (actually only repetition of the same paltry facts) from our one party media about the civilian deaths in Haditha, I am surprised that we have heard nothing about the curious background of one of the first journalists to report the story, Ali Omar Abrahem al-Mashhadani, from the "restive town" of Ramadi.
It turns out Mr. al-Mashhadani might not have felt the kindliest intentions towards the US, having been imprisoned for five months mere weeks before his Haditha scoop.
Al-Mashhadani was detained because images found on his camera and because of his t"ies to the insurgents," according to US officials.
Indeed, al-Mashhadani has since been detained by the US again, for two weeks. In fact he was only released today.

Indeed, it is true that he has been jailed, twice:

An Iraqi cameraman for Reuters news agency was released Thursday after being held for 12 days by the U.S. military. Ali al-Mashhadani, 37, was arrested at a U.S. base in his home town of Ramadi on May 20 while trying to recover Reuters cell phones confiscated from him a week earlier, Reuters reported. It said U.S. officials deemed the cameraman a security threat, although no allegation or charge was made against him. Al-Mashhadani was repeatedly interviewed about his work as a journalist in Anbar province, Reuters said.

The journalist was held incommunicado for 10 days by U.S. Marines before being transferred to military officials in Baghdad. There, for the last two days of his detention, he came under the direct control of senior U.S. commanders. He was released under a fast-track procedure for reviewing the detention of journalists which was established in March. U.S. military rules allow local commanders to detain individuals for 14 days before releasing them or sending them to Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.

"Military officials should explain why Ali al-Mashhadani was held for nearly two weeks for no apparent reason and questioned about his work," said CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper.

This was Al-Mashhadani's second detention. In January, he [was] released without charge after being held incommunicado since August 8, 2005 by U.S. forces. Al-Mashhadani was taken from Ramadi during a general sweep of the neighborhood by U.S. Marines who became suspicious after seeing pictures on his cameras. After his detention, a U.S.-Iraqi Combined Review and Release Board (CRRB) determined that he posed a "threat," and ordered his continued detention. Officials gave no evidence to justify his detention.

No justification. No charges. No reason given. Nothing.  But here is the conclusion reached by the same conservative website

did Ali al-Mashhadani have an axe to grind against the US after having just been released after being held for five months by the Americans?
Did it color his reporting, which is still the centerpiece of every report we have on the Haditha deaths to date?

Would one have an "ax to grind" if imprisoned without being given any reason, any charges? Perhaps. But that is not exactly the point. What did he report? Was that proven to be fabricated? No.

But that does not seem to matter. An ad-hominem seems to do just fine. What a relief! The logical upshot?  The Haditha Massacre Did Not Take Place!

(A roughly similar post in French)