Reporting from Hell
For resistance fighters in Iraq, journalists are almost as big a target as soldiers. Many view them as an extension of the American occupiers.
Japanese journalist Aika Kanou was covering Falluja at the height of the resistance battles when she was abducted by resistance fighters. "A mujahideen pointed a gun at me and told me to get out of the car," she recalls. "He didn't know what a journalist was. He shouted - 'You are American!"' Since the beginning of the war 25 journalists have died covering the war in Iraq. Nearly everyone has had a close shave. Sunday Telegraph reporter Lee Gordan was abducted for nine days. "It is really an anti-foreigner feeling that has grown here," states Washington Post correspondent Pamela Constable. "Nowhere is safe." But for the journalists in Iraq, danger is all part of the job: "I go to dangerous places, as there I can see the edge of human beings."
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