The chief editor of a U.S.-funded Iraqi newspaper has resigned along with the paper’s entire staff to protest American interference in the publication. The newspaper, Al Sabah, was set up by the U.S. as part of the Pentagon-funded Iraqi Media Network which is being overseen by the private company Harris Corporation. The paper’s editor, Ismail Zayer, said of the U.S. and Harris, “We had a project to create a free media in Iraq. They are trying to control us. We are being suffocated.”