http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=6de6e56231001ec2Whether the fighting in Iraq qualifies as a civil war or not, three years of conflict has already claimed more lives among the press corps than 20 years of jungle, and at times urban, warfare in Vietnam and the Algerian civil war.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi believes his country has already fallen into civil war. With 50 to 60 Iraqis dying everyday, Allawi told the British Broadcasting Corporation that, "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is." He has since retreated from that position saying Iraq is not yet in a fully-blown civil war, but is approaching it. President George W. Bush disagrees with the former prime minister. Bush said he does not believe it is civil war. "The Iraqis had a chance to fall apart and they didn't," he said at a news conference Tuesday.
Regardless of what type of conflict Iraq is, one fact that politicians from all sides may agree on is just how dangerous Iraq has become for journalists trying to cover the story.
According to a just released study by the Paris-based media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders, 86 journalists and media aides were killed and 38 kidnapped between March 20, 2003, when hostilities in Iraq first began, and March 20, 2006
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