Posted on 08/30/2005 5:54:45 AM PDT by JohnnyLawrence4U
On August 3, Steven Vincent earned the dubious distinction of being, according to the New York Times, "the first American reporter to be attacked and killed in the current Iraq war." He was shot dead and left outside of Basra, where he had been living for the last few months.
Vincent published an op-ed in the July 31 New York Times in which he lambasted the British for their failure to inculcate Iraqi police trainees with principle alongside procedure. As many as 75% of the new officers, according to one of his sources, hold allegiance to militant clerics
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