[winstonchurchill]

It would seem to me that it would be fairly easy to run a sting in Iraq looking for journalists that would pay for access to cover an attack, or would receive payments or "gifts", to provide such coverage.

You raise an interesting issue. In such a sting, the payor could not, in truth, actually 'give aid and comfort.' The crime would be 'attempted treason'. I wonder if there is such a thing. Come to think of it, 'attempted treason' sounds like the raison d'etre of the NYT.

[optimistically_conservative]

The crime would be 'attempted treason'.

Hmmmm ... perhaps the Iraqi courts could find such attempted treason within it's borders actionable? Or a military tribunal? I know, I know ... we find them illegal enemy combatants and ship them to GITMO.