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February 20, 2006
WSJ's Farnaz Fassihi Describes Life 'Under the Gun' in Iraq
Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal's Beirut-based "senior Middle East correspondent," tells what working and living "Under the Gun" was like during her three years covering Iraq. She "began going to Iraq in October of 2002, when it was still ruled by Saddam Hussein. I covered the war from the Kurdish northern area, moving to Baghdad after the regime fell," she writes.
Fassihi, left Iraq on Dec. 18, 2005, after "the British security firm we hired had warned in an email that insurgents were plotting to kidnap a female American journalist and advised women not to leave their hotel unless absolutely necessary."
"Several weeks later," Fassihi continues, 'my friend Jill Carroll, a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, was abducted in broad daylight at gunpoint as she left an interview in Baghdad. Her Iraqi translator was murdered. As I write this, despite pleas for her release the world over, Jill remains in captivity."
Note: This post can also be found in The Blogging Journalist, my other blog.
Posted by Munir Umrani at February 20, 2006 08:42 AM
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