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Mon, 6 Feb 2006
In Iraq, the Untold Stories Pile Up, One by One by One
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The fact is, with the press in Iraq stretched thin, the grinding, day-to-day reality of the war is essentially being forgotten.
By Posted at 08:00 AM
This is the final part in a series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- When it was time for me to leave Echo Company and make my way back to Baghdad, and then home, Capt. Pinion arranged to have me catch a ride with the "Road Show" -- a weekly convoy...
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Thu, 2 Feb 2006
Embedded with a Night Patrol in Fallujah
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - Curfew falls at 11 p.m. each night, after which anyone found out on the street is considered a target.
By Posted at 03:01 PM
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- The curfew had not yet come into effect, but the streets were already deserted, the darkened windows of buildings staring vacantly into the night. We were on night patrol, rolling through the streets of Fallujah with two 7-ton trucks and...
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Wed, 1 Feb 2006
On Patrol In a Tense Fallujah
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - No more than a minute after leaving the base, we swung a hard left and were bouncing down the streets of Fallujah, kicking up a dust storm in our wake.
By Posted at 11:43 AM
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- A couple Marines came stomping through the door of the hootch where I was sleeping at about 4 a.m., body armor and weaponry clattering behind them as they climbed into their own bunks. They were back from one of Echo...
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Mon, 30 Jan 2006
With Echo Company of the Second Marine Division
FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The "media tent" at Camp Fallujah may be nothing more than a couple of dusty bunk beds with muddy pillows, but the chow isn't half bad.
By Posted at 05:27 PM
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
FALLUJAH, IRAQ -- I was eager to leave Baghdad and embed with the Second Marine Division in Fallujah, but due to bad weather -- and then a sandstorm -- I ended up getting stuck another two nights at the Coalition Press Information Center...
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Fri, 27 Jan 2006
A Dwindling Corps in a Volatile, Battered City
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - As media outlets pull out of Iraq, the journalists that remain are a hardened bunch, angry at their inability to move around - and becoming increasingly isolated.
By Posted at 12:36 PM
Part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Among reporters who have been in and out of Iraq since the beginning of the war, there seems to be a kind of consensus that the summer of 2003 and, to a much lesser extent, part of 2004, was a...
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Wed, 25 Jan 2006
"The Party's Pretty Much Over"
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Chivalry and black-framed glasses may fly in New York City, but it's a different game in Baghdad.
By Posted at 12:52 PM
This is part of a continuing series about the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
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...
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Fri, 20 Jan 2006
Getting Out of Baghdad Is As Hard As Getting In
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- For reporters, Iraq turns out to be a very small world.
By Posted at 11:11 AM
Part of a continuing series reporting on the life of an embedded reporter in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Once I was off the chopper in the International Zone, a couple of soldiers from the Coalition Press Information Center (CPIC) swung around to pick me up to get my credentials. Within 30 minutes, I had a military-issue "press...
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Thu, 19 Jan 2006
Neil Cavuto Doesn't Look Any Better from Iraq
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Camp Stryker is a place where travel plans go to die.
By Posted at 10:49 AM
This is the third installment in a series of posts about the life of an embedded journalist in Iraq.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- Camp Stryker is a place where travel plans go to die.
After waking in the late afternoon to the thunder of a steady downpour on the roof of my tent, I decided that...
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006
Further Adventures in (Attempted) Embedding
"I hate how the media is covering this war," a Kellogg Brown & Root contractor at the Kuwait airport snarled when he found out I was a journalist.
By Posted at 11:49 AM
This is part two of a series reporting from Iraq on how the press is doing its job.
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT -- "I hate how the media is covering this war," a Kellogg Brown & Root contractor at the Kuwait airport snarled when he found out I was a journalist.
That isn't exactly the way...
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Tue, 17 Jan 2006
Kuwait, Coffee and C-130's
CJR Daily’s correspondent, on his way to Baghdad, gets a military-sanctioned tour of Kuwait City - including plenty of Starbucks franchises.
By Posted at 11:25 AM
CJR Daily’s Paul McLeary is reporting from Iraq on how the press is doing its job there. This is his first dispatch in a series.
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT -- In retrospect, after landing at Kuwait City airport, groggy from the daylong flight from New York, I probably wasn’t the best judge of my options.
The...
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