Targeting Iraq's free press
Another reminder, as if we needed any, about the fragility of a free press in Iraq, this time from the CIA.
It’s been widely reported that more than 60 Iraqi reporters and editors have been kidnapped and murdered since the fall of Baghdad. Now over the past few days, according to the CIA, Iraqi insurgents have begun an intimidation campaign against newspaper vendors and distributors. The information is contained in an internal CIA analysis obtained by NBC News.
Most of the intimidation has been focused in Baghdad, say agency analysts, and has included firebombing and notes warning those who print or distribute newspapers that they face death if they continue.
Click here to read the rest of Robert Windrem’s report in the "Daily Nightly" blog.
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