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One unforeseen blessing of the collapse of the Soviet Union has been the easing of security restrictions in former Iron Curtain nations. Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Western journalists have been able to access to classified documents that would have gotten them shot a few years before. That's a scary thought - but not nearly as chilling as some of the secrets they've uncovered. In "Red Star Rogue," author Kenneth Sewell takes us inside the once top-secret Soviet nuclear navy to reveal the explosive facts about one of best-kept secrets of the Cold War, the sinking of Soviet...

The Defense Department has issued a warning to "unembedded" journalists. According to assistant secretary of public affairs Tori Clarke, the Pentagon has received information that Iraqis "might equip vehicles and soldiers to look like news media." She warned news operations, particularly "independent media that are roaming the battlefield ... to exercise the utmost care and judgment with respect to how they are asking their reporters to cover this conflict."The warning was prompted in part by the deaths of two unembedded journalists Saturday. One, an ITV News correspondent, was believed by ITV to have been the victim of so-called friendly fire...