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...after all, the law of the republic. Almost 4,000 km to the east, a group of insurgents calling themselves the Iraqi Islamic Army were inviting French Muslims like Butt to take sides against that republic. The insurgents were threatening to kill two abducted French journalists unless the government rescinded the head-scarf ban. But the government refused to do so, and even though they disagree with the law, French Muslims rallied behind their secular leaders. "The drama in Iraq must not lead us to renounce this law," said Lhaj Thami Brèze, president of the Union of Islamic...
...EXECUTED. ENZO BALDONI, 56, Italian freelance journalist; after being kidnapped Aug. 19 on the road between Baghdad and Najaf; in Iraq. The al-Jazeera network said last Thursday that it had received a picture of Baldoni's body from a group calling itself the Islamic Army; the group claimed the killing was in response to Italy's refusal to withdraw troops from Iraq. A father of two who ran a successful Milan advertising agency, Baldoni turned to journalism in 1996 and was working in Iraq for the Milan weekly Diario. He is the second Italian hostage killed in Iraq since...
...after the U.S. and Britain. Citing security concerns, Seoul in July requested Korean media to report as little as possible about the deployment. Many of South Korea's newspapers ran articles saying they were complying, and three national television networks pulled the plug on coverage. The sole Korean journalist in Arbil, a television producer, was forced to move onto the military base by Korean authorities. She can't leave the compound without an escort of Kurdish militiamen, and hasn't received permission to file a single television story since her arrival in June...
...have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount...
...Fischer more vigorously after all these years. Japan's immigration authorities detained him as he attempted to board a flight from Tokyo to Manila, acting on a letter from the U.S. State Department, which notified them that his passport had been revoked in November 2003. John Bosnitch, a Canadian journalist and consultant in Japan who has founded an organization called the Committee to Free Bobby Fischer, says the U.S.'s invalidation of Fischer's passport did not follow due process because Fischer was not properly notified of the action, nor of his right to a 60-day appeal period...