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To: Yankee
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030331/en_afp/iraq_war_us_television_030331174934

Celebrity TV journalist Geraldo Rivera kicked out of Iraq: Pentagon

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Celebrity television journalist Geraldo Rivera, who has been on assignment covering the US-led war in Iraq (news - web sites), has been told by US military officials that he is no longer welcome to accompany US troops there.

"I can confirm that it has been done," said military spokesman Navy Lieutenant Commander Charles Owens on Monday, contacted at Central Command headquarters in Qatar.

Owens said Rivera, a star of the Fox News television network, was not embedded with troops, but had been "asked to leave the unit he was with." ...

269 posted on 03/31/2003 10:19:44 AM PST by Area51
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To: Area51
Don't you think it is strange that Roger Ailes would have let him do his report live this morning if Fox had been notified that Geraldo was kicked out? Wouldn't the protocol be to notify the top guy at the network before telling the other press? Very odd.
274 posted on 03/31/2003 10:22:18 AM PST by babaloo
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To: Area51
AFP?

Isn't that a French news agency?

Hmmm.

The plot thickens.
282 posted on 03/31/2003 10:26:37 AM PST by Yankee
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