Not all Journalists in Iraq are Embedded -- What really happens

[proudbluestater]

This is from the weblog of Dahr Jamail, an unembedded reporter in Iraq, one of only two who are not embedded. He writes what he says are "nearly daily" logs on his website. The link is below. You can also get to it through the website of democracynow.org. He appears by phone on Democracy Now frequently. What I've pasted below is the tail end of the article. I am ashamed to be an American again today.


"Photos dated from May, 2003 have been shown all over Jazeera today-showing Navy Seals torturing Iraqis. Up close shots of men with bloodied mouths with guns held to their heads, etc. You know the drill by now.

They were put on the net by the wife of a soldier who’d returned from Iraq.

John Hutson, a retired rear admiral who served as the Navy’s Judge Advocate General from 1997 to 2000, said the photos suggested possible Geneva Convention violations, as international law prohibits souvenir photos of prisoners of war.

Hutson said, “It’s pretty obvious that these pictures were taken largely as war trophies.”

Not too surprising, however, because there are also eyewitness reports now from refugees that some soldiers in Fallujah were tying the dead bodies of resistance fighters to tanks and driving around with their “trophies.”

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000148.php#more

[clem_c_rock]

1. Notice how he gets regularly shot at by US troops

This guy's courage is beyond comprehension. In many of his blogs he speaks of getting shot at (warning shots) by US troops.

Do you know who the second non-embeded journalist is?

Robert Fiske by any chance?

Thanks for posting this...