4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images
new york times
26-Jul-2008 (3 comments)

BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.

Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.

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programmer craig

lol

by programmer craig on Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:04 AM PDT

Whatever.


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to: programmer craig

by mostaghel on Sun Jul 27, 2008 08:24 AM PDT

Programmer Guy,

I did not make up the news! I only posted it. Unlike W and his clan, the rest of the people would like to know the facts and reality, not  the made up stuff.

 

thanks


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programmer craig

mostaghel

by programmer craig on Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:55 PM PDT

Fair and balanced! Right? Another article from your source:

//www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/world/middleeast...

The marines’ drive against the Taliban in this large farming region
is certainly not finished, and the Taliban have often been pushed out
of areas in Afghanistan only to return in force later. But for the
British forces and Afghan residents here, the result of the recent
operation has been palpable.

The district chief returned to his
job from his refuge in the provincial capital within days of the battle
and 200 people — including 100 elders of the community — gathered for a
meeting with him and the British to plan the regeneration of the town.

 

 


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