Report: More journalists killed in Iraq than Vietnam

[steve2470]

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

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.

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[wli]

1. must be a policy of assassinating journalists n/t

[DemInDistress]

2. Rumsfeld's plan to liberate Iraq....

"One Journalist at a Time"...