[diamond6]

If they are afraid that their reporting news would get their sources killed, they should REMOVE themselves and all their staff from that country, period.

If you read the article you would know that most of their employees were Iraqi citizens. They could remove Americans, but not necessarily Iraqis.

[Howlin]

If you read the article you would know that most of their employees were Iraqi citizens.

CLUE: If CNN didn't operate in Iraq because they were being manipulated by Saddam, they wouldn't have ANY employees in Iraq.

Are you the kind of person who, when asked what time it is, tells someone how to built a watch?

[marajade]

"If you read the article you would know that most of their employees were Iraqi citizens."

They should have never gotten themselves in the situation they were in in the first place...

[William McKinley]

If you read the article, you will see that the Iraqis who worked for western media still were intimidated, occasionally tortured, occasionally disappeared into the night and fog.

In other words, CNN merely provided them 'employment' which continued to put them at risk and did not give them any safety. They would have been no worse off had CNN left at the first sign of having to sacrifice journalistic integrity- as a matter of fact they would have been better off.

And the world would have been better off because Saddam's propaganda outfit would not have had as much success.