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(25 Nov 2003) 1. Exterior of al-Arabiya office 2. Entrance to offices 3. Iraqi police raiding office telling cameraman to stop filming 4. Shot through window of police inside al-Arabiya office 5. Man talking on mobile phone 6. Iraqi police confiscating materials 7. Confiscated material in car 8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jalal Talabani, Current President of the Iraqi Governing Council: "I would like you to know your responsibilities as journalists. We don't want to put any restrictions on journalists, we support freedom, but there is a difference between democracy and freedom and incitement to killing and assassination. There are crimes according to law. I urge you so that no one exploits you in the name of freedom to take this path because we are going to take severe legal measures against those who incite assassination. We are going to sue satellite channels, newspapers and radio stations." 9. News conference 10. Talabani leaving news conference STORYLINE: One of the Middle East's biggest television news networks has agreed to stop reports from Iraq after the US-appointed government raided its offices, banned its broadcasts and threatened to imprison journalists. The Iraqi government accused al-Arabiya of "inciting murder" for broadcasting an audio tape a week ago of a voice it said belonged to Saddam Hussein. Jalal Talabani, the current president of the Iraqi Governing Council, told journalists on Monday that "there is a difference between democracy and freedom and incitement to killing and assassination". He said Al-Arabiya would be banned from working in Iraq for "a certain time", which he didn't specify. Earlier on Monday, about 20 Iraqi police officers raided al-Arabiya's offices in Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood, making lists of equipment to be seized if it didn't comply with the order, according to station correspondent Ali al-Khatib. The correspondent said the officers told employees they were banned from broadcasting any reports from Iraq and that they would be fined one-thousand US dollars and imprisoned for a year for each violation. He also said the police carried an order from the Governing Council and told al-Arabiya the council might reconsider its decision if the news channel writes a letter pledging never to encourage terrorism. In the audiotape purported to be Saddam speaking, which was broadcast on November 16, the voice urged Iraqis to step up their resistance to the US-led occupation. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...