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...didn't occur to me that the missile flying over Camp Iwo Jima in the northern Kuwaiti desert might not be friendly. I'm a doctor, a medical correspondent, not a bang-bang journalist. But I noticed all the Marines around me were hitting the deck. Five seconds later, the alarm "Bunker! Bunker! Bunker!" blared over the p.a. system. Over the next 20 hours, I would share with 70 Marines and two CNN colleagues the same space and the same occupation: target...
...Another new feature of the war in Kurdistan is that for a week or two journalists became designated targets. The risk of falling victim to friendly fire - or getting killed in a road accident because we are too cool to buckle our seatbelts - is a risk that comes with this sort of work. But for a while Ansar al-Islam, a fundamentalist group that carved out an armed camp near the Iranian border, pointed its suicide bombers in our direction and succeeded in killing one journalist. In theory Ansar al-Islam was routed ten days ago, though I have...
...When I took cover that afternoon, I thought for a moment that perhaps I should call the office. An idea like this would have occurred in previous wars, but this time is different, even for a technologically backward print journalist like myself. This is a war of Thurayas - the tiny satellite phones little bigger than a cell phone - and text messages. We correspondents are now joined, umbilical-like, to each other and the rest of the world. So we zoom up Kurdistan's mountain roads, messaging each other from our cars - no more stopping to assemble, swivel around and curse...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Michael Caine is garnering some of the best reviews of his career for his role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton...
...United States should not allow criticism from the international community to slow its military and humanitarian efforts in Iraq, journalist and conservative commentator David Brooks said yesterday in a speech at the Kennedy School of Government...