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| Free-roaming journalists say their lives at risk | |
| 2003-04-02 | |
British journalists covering the war in Iraq have said their lives are being put at risk because of a decision by the British Ministry of Defence to hinder rather than help correspondents who are not attached to its units. In some cases, reporters who have made their own way into the country are being forced to sleep in their vehicles in still unsafe streets rather than allowed to park in some of the army bases, air strips and ports that the invading forces have seized. "My job is to make your lives as difficult as possible. You will get not help whatsoever," a senior army spokesman allegedly told one group of journalists.
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| Posted by:rg117 |
| #6 "Free roaming?" Would that be anything like free range beef? Tasty. |
| Posted by: Billy Hank 2003-04-02 23:32:11 |
| #5 Hey, it's a freaking war zone. Yah want to be safe wear a UN blue helmet or wave a Frog flag. That's enough that one side won't shoot your ass off |
| Posted by: Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-04-02 22:44:11 |
| #4 Apparently "free-roaming" is a concept they can't even grasp themselves. |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-04-02 22:18:24 |
| #3 Wow. The gall of these twits - "I came over even though I was told I would get no assistance, and I'm really cheesed that you won't protect my whiny hinder holster and feed me and give me a little reassurance that you'll remove my chestnuts from the fire when they start roasting, and WHERE'S THE LOVE?!" |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-02 20:52:36 |
| #2 "free-roaming journalists" I rather like that; conjures images of a mindless scavenger pack despoiling the countryside, trampling gardens, and sending all other creatures fleeing in terror before its brutish quest for decaying bathos and recycled Vietnam imagery. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2003-04-02 20:49:16 |
| #1 Well, duh... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-02 20:20:50 |