Baghdad is ‘too dangerous for Western journalists’
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • May 21st, 2007 • Category: Broadcasting, JournalismComment from Terry McCarthy, ABC’s Baghdad correspondent, on the killing of two colleagues, as reported on the ABC news site:
They are really our eyes and ears in Iraq. Many places in Baghdad are just too dangerous for foreigners to go now, so we have Iraqi camera crews who very bravely go out. Without them, we are blind. We cannot see what’s going on.
Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf were killed last Thursday.
They were, according to Reporters sans frontièrs, the 20th and 21st journalists killed in Iraq this year. Of the 21, 20 have Middle Eastern sounding names and one a name which sounds Russian.
Yesterday the 22nd was found dead. Ali Khalil worked for the popular daily al-Zaman.
Andrew Grant-Adamson is Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist who now teaches a new generation of writers, subs and editors at the University of Westminster.
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