BAGHDAD, May 4 (IslamOnline.net) – The editor-in-chief of a U.S.-funded Iraqi daily and most of his staff quit Monday, May 3, protesting incessant American intervention in their wok, reported Toronto Star Tuesday, May 4.

"They are trying to control us. We are being suffocated," said Ismail Zayer, chief editor of Al-Sabah, seen by many Iraqis as the mouthpiece of the occupation authority.

"We had a project to create a free media in Iraq," he said, recalling the prime objective of the paper.

Zayer said he and his resigned colleagues were celebrating the "end of a nightmare we have suffered from for months."

The daily along with Al-Iraqiya television and a number of radio stations are run by Harris Inc., a Florida-based firm, through a 96-million-dollar Pentagon contract.

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