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  • A Target of Convenience

    04/21/2009 4:59:38 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 231+ views
    National Review ^ | April 21, 2009 | Michael Rubin
    Iran’s arrest of journalist Roxana Saberi recalls Iraq’s treatment of Farzad Bazoft. Michael Rubin On April 13, Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old Iranian-American journalist, appeared before a closed hearing of a revolutionary court to answer charges of spying for the United States — potentially capital charges. Iranian officials brushed off Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s request for Saberi to be released. Iranian justice was quick. On April 18, the court found Saberi guilty and sentenced her to eight years. Her case calls to mind that of Farzad Bazoft, a Western journalist executed by Saddam Hussein in 1990. It is worthwhile to...
  • Air War: How Saddam Manipulates the U. S. Media

    10/17/2002 10:44:28 AM PDT · by GeneD · 10 replies · 355+ views
    The New Republic ^ | 10/16/02 (for issue of 10/28/02) | Franklin Foer
    If the bombs begin falling on Baghdad, a broad swath of the TV-viewing world will quickly become intimate with Jane Arraf, CNN's Iraq correspondent for the past four years. Arraf files her reports from the third-floor landing of a blocky white building a few hundred meters from the Tigris River, with the ancient city's minaret-filled panorama behind her. CNN shares the building with the BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, and the handful of other news organizations that have a permanent presence in Baghdad. But there's an uncomfortable fact about this building to which these tenants don't often call attention: It's the...