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Report: More journalists killed in Iraq than Vietnam

Sunday, August 28, 2005; Posted: 4:09 p.m. EDT (20:09 GMT)


Manage Alerts | What Is This? PARIS, France (Reuters) -- More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003 than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Sunday.

Since U.S. forces and its allies launched their campaign in Iraq on March 20, 2003, 66 journalists and their assistants have been killed, RSF said.

The latest casualty was a Reuters Television soundman who was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday, while a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by U.S. soldiers.

The death toll in Iraq compares with a total of 63 journalists in Vietnam, but which was over a period of 20 years from 1955 to 1975, the Paris-based organization that campaigns to protect journalists said on its Web site.

During the fighting in the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995, 49 journalists were killed doing their job, while 57 journalists and 20 media assistants were killed during a civil war in Algeria from 1993 to 1996.

RSF listed Iraq as the world's most dangerous place for journalists. In addition to those killed, 22 have been kidnapped. All but one was released. Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni was executed by his captors.

The first media fatality was in the opening days of the fighting, when cameraman Paul Moran, of the Australian TV network ABC, was killed by a car bomb on March 22, 2003, RSF added.

Two other journalists have been missing since March 2003 and August 2004.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/28/iraq.journalists.reut/index.html

Sharpton, Sheen visit antiwar camp

Sunday, August 28, 2005; Posted: 10:14 p.m. EDT (02:14 GMT)

Manage Alerts | What Is This? CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton joined hundreds of war protesters camping near President Bush's ranch for an interfaith service Sunday, saying he felt compelled to meet Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who started the rally three weeks earlier.

Sheehan arrived in Bush's hometown August 6 and refused to leave until she could question the president about the war that has killed more than 1,870 U.S. service members, including her son Casey.

"I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation," said Sharpton, an activist and former Democratic presidential candidate.

Sharpton and Sheehan laid roses at crosses near "Camp Casey," named for Sheehan's 24-year-old son who was killed in Iraq last year.

Actor Martin Sheen, who portrays the Democratic president on NBC's "The West Wing," also met with Sheehan on Sunday.

"At least you've got the acting president of the United States," Sheen told the crowd of more than 300. "I think you know what I do for a living, but this is what I do to stay alive."

Several cars with pro-Bush signs drove slowly down the road by the protest campsite. One man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly shoving an anti-war demonstrator, McLennan County sheriff's deputies said.

After the war protest ends Wednesday, the anti-war group plans to spread its message on a bus tour, with the first stop probably in the southeast Texas district of U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Bush has said he appreciates Sheehan's right to protest and sympathizes with her, but his aides have said there are no plans to change his schedule to meet with her.

Sheehan and other grieving families met with Bush about two months after her son died last year, before she became a vocal opponent of the war.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/28/crawford.sharpton/index.html

Thank god for Sharpton and Sheen-that's some combo! :tu:

Don't forget that Italian cunt.. I mean, journalist, who had her car shot up by US forces. Wonder what she knows? Napalm in Fallujah..?

The US has killed a bunch of reporters. Guess they don't want those mass graves publicized, much less the 55% Iraqi casualties who have been women and kids under the age of 12.

WE ARE SO WRONG TO BE IN IRAQ IT'S SICK.

Sharpton is a government tool. He's on nobody's side.

Al Shaprton he's my hero. it just shows how far left Cindy is