CYRUS KAR has been released from detention in Iraq:

U.S. Releases Filmmaker Detained in Iraq

By FRANK GRIFFITHS
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 10, 2005; 11:46 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An aspiring Iranian-American filmmaker who has been detained by the U.S. military for nearly two months without being charged was released Sunday, officials said.

Cyrus Kar, 44, of Los Angeles, was taken into custody May 17 near Balad when potential bomb parts were found in a taxi in which he was riding. His family had filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of violating his civil rights and holding him after the FBI cleared him of suspicion.

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With help from independent director-producer Philippe Diaz, Kar began working on a documentary about the Persian king Cyrus the Great. He shot of footage at archaeological sites in Afghanistan and Iran, according to his family and Diaz.

He was visiting Iraq to film in and around the ancient city of Babylon, one of Cyrus the Great's conquests, according to his family.

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(Via the IraqCrisis list.)