Word: kozyrev
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...dozens of foreign journalists holed up in the Hotel Palestine. That was how the international press corps gathered at the Palestine Hotel in the Iraqi capital interpreted the sudden disappearance of most of the government minders who have remained at their sides throughout the war. TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev phoned home Tuesday morning to report that most of the "guides" had gone, and not returned, leaving correspondents freed of government restraints but facing new perils in the final battle for Baghdad. Many of the journalists took the development as a sign that the regime may be collapsing. Kozyrev did manage...
...Baghdad have simply dispersed and gone home. He made his way to the house in the suburb of al-Mansour bombed the previous night by U.S. 'bunker-busters' following an intelligence tip that placed Saddam Hussein and his sons there. "I have never seen such a huge crater," said Kozyrev. "Can't imagine what kind of munitions were used to wreak such havoc. The house was a kind of private villa of which nothing is left...
...photojournalist Robert Capa once said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." For Gulf War II, TIME's photographers are as close as they can be. Yuri Kozyrev, James Nachtwey and Patrick Robert are in Baghdad, getting pictures of the city as it suffers the trauma of bombardment. Four others--James Hill, Benjamin Lowy, Christopher Morris and Robert Nickelsberg--are traveling with U.S. forces as they fight their way north. Kate Brooks, Thomas Dworzak and Yunghi Kim are already there, with the Kurds in northern Iraq. Here is some of what they...
...YURI KOZYREV...
...extreme situations," says Kozyrev, "that you get to see human nature and genuine emotions in all their intensity." As a man who has covered wars and conflicts in the republics of the former Soviet Union, the Russian-born Kozyrev should know. He found himself in another intense situation in Baghdad last week as bombs pounded the city. "What has impressed me," he says, "is that the morale of the people in Baghdad remains high...