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AP International Editor Deborah Seward makes the point that the journalists best able to move freely in Baghdad are the AP's Iraqi staffers - text, photo and television. She says many were victims, along with their families, of Saddam's regime. Reporting is dangerous for them, but they are determined to capture this historic period for their country. Still, they find conditions so dangerous that they have all relocated their families outside Iraq."Story here
I wonder whether the AP reporter spoken of this way was compromised because of past history with the regime. Or whether, as CNN's Eason, a certain quid pro quo was de rigeur for working as a journalist in Iraq.
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