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NOTE: This is new book release in March 2009. "Unembedded" looks like a worthwhile book for any library. Ravnagora____ Unembedded: Two Decades of Maverick War ReportingScott Taylor has risked his life in war zones dozens of times, going his own way to get 'the whole story'. By Scott Taylor Douglas & McIntyre, $34.95 The scene is Mosul, Iraq, September 2004 and three days into Scott Taylor's captivity in the hands of insurgents. "Only after I was completely trussed up," he writes, "did my interrogator enter the room. I could sense him as he seated himself a few feet in front...

Embedded With the Enemy? by: Bethany Stotts, October 25, 2007 The new art exhibit, “Unembedded”—a photojournalists’ account of the Iraq War—has been featured at several prestigious universities amid widespread applause as to its self-described “nuanced view of the civilian instability and increased violence in Iraq that has followed the US-led invasion in 2003.” A very popular University-sponsored exhibit since its January 2006 New York debut, the collection has been displayed at the University of Northern Arizona, Orange County Community College, Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music, Wayne State University, Philander Smith College, the College of Public Health at the University...

You're Either With Us... Dispatch from Tikrit -- 11-18-03 Plastic Cuffs It is nearly 2am and there are six men, bound and blindfolded on their knees forming a crescent around an armor-plated Humvee. It is their hands that fascinate me the most -- perhaps because I can still see them, little white anemones wriggling in the darkness. Their faces have already disappeared behind dirty strips cloth or snuffed like candles with nylon sandbags. It takes only moments from when they are captured and face down in the dirt, to the click, click, click of the white plastic cuffs noosed around...

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...