Journalists in Iraq: U.S. forces are their biggest danger
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the above is what tends to make the news in this country because fingers can be pointed at the insurgents... it isn't the insurgency, however, that presents the biggest danger to journalists in iraq...
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Three enormous bombs, one of them a cement-mixing truck packed with explosives, blew up near an Iraqi police post near the Palestine Hotel — home to many foreign journalists in Iraq. Police said 17 people were killed.
the above is what tends to make the news in this country because fingers can be pointed at the insurgents... it isn't the insurgency, however, that presents the biggest danger to journalists in iraq...
The US authorities in Iraq have been ranked as one of the biggest dangers to journalists in the world, worse than the regime in Georgia and Afghanistan in a new global survey of press freedom.Submit To Propeller
They have been ranked 108th by Reporters Without Borders, putting them just above Cambodia and only 11 places ahead of the Palestinian Authority in terms of safety.
The press freedom organisation said it had given the US its own separate ranking in the war-torn country because of the number of journalists killed by US army gunfire.
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10/24/2005
