Deathtrap Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The American journalist Jill Carroll, weeping and veiled, appeared on a new videotape aired yesterday by Al-Jazeera, and the Arab television station said she appealed for the release of all Iraqi women prisoners. The video was dated Saturday - two days after the American military released five Iraqi women. Ms. Carroll, 28, was crying and wore a conservative Islamic veil as she...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt are no strangers to combat or sticky situations. Like hundreds of other journalists, both built their careers on going to war zones and bringing back the story. But the bomb attack that seriously wounded Woodruff and Vogt shook the news industry Sunday, providing a chilling reminder that covering the war in Iraq has become increasingly...

Opinion about Iraq splits along political lines. Republicans maintain that the going is tough but we are making real progress. Most Democrats feel that we are wading deeper into quicksand. The public understandably wants an objective source of information about Iraq. That should be the American press, but it isn’t. The January Gallup Poll on Iraq found that 49 percent of respondents felt that we...

(CNN) -- Both Time magazine's Michael Ware and CNN's Nic Robertson have spent many days in war zones and know the danger of reporting from Iraq. On Monday, they reflected on the bombing that wounded ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt. Ware and Robertson told CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that journalists are increasingly being targeted. O'BRIEN: The area where this attack took place on...

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff was with David Bloom outside Iraq days before the NBC correspondent died of a pulmonary embolism, and he immediately raced home to help Bloom's family with the funeral arrangements -- and to comfort his own wife, Lee, and their four children. The reason, Woodruff explained to New York's Daily News soon after his friend's death in 2003, is that "they equate my life and...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and camera operator Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. television network said. At the time of the blast, they were traveling with an Iraqi Army unit in an Iraqi vehicle near Taji, near Baghdad, the network said. After the blast, the vehicle came under small arms fire, ABC news reported....

More than 400 detainees being held in Iraqi and US-run prisons, including five women, were freed on Thursday in a move which could help free abducted US reporter Jill Carroll. "We have released 419 detainees today including five women," a spokesman for the US detention facilities in Iraq said. An Iraqi justice ministry official earlier said a total of 424 detainees were to be freed following a...

BAGHDAD, Jan 26 (IPS) - Journalists covering Iraq have run into some sort of balance of troubles. During the days leading up to the war in Iraq in the spring of 2003, many foreign correspondents travelled to Baghdad. Journalists knew war was imminent, and news bureaus scrambled to position their reporters to cover the story. As the war unfolded, journalists from all over the world were thrown...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Chivalry and black-framed glasses may fly in New York City, but it's a different game in Baghdad. Two female reporters from the Los Angeles Times had graciously agreed to give me a lift from the International Zone to my hotel. (As the London Telegraph's Oliver Poole told me back at CPIC, "It's a close knit group in Baghdad, and everyone there looks out for each other -- especially...

BAGHDAD, 25 January (IRIN) - Local journalists say they are unable to write freely about politics due to threats from insurgents and unknown sources. Khalid Samim of the Iraqi Journalists Association (IJA) said the association had received more than 80 reports of threats against journalists from confirmed insurgents since the war began, and more than 100 from unknown sources. Threats appeared to...