Iraqi blogger: Baghdad after Saddam
Salam Pax; 9/4/08
Iraq’s first blogger, Salam Pax, was in Baghdad on April 9, 2003. He watched cautiously as the US military entered the capital and took down Saddam Hussein’s government. But hopes for a better future were soon replaced with fears of looters taking the city apart brick by brick. Five years later, he recounts the trials and tribulations experienced by Iraqis who woke up for the first time in 24 years without a government led by Saddam Hussein. The collected weblog has been published by Guardian Books under the title The Baghdad Blog. He also made 19 short documentaries about life in Iraq after the war and was awarded Royal Television Society’s award for innovation in 2003
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0D89AE02-216D-4E4B-A6F9-4ED46D5C68BF.htm
Questions over journalists’ deaths
Linda Isam Haddad; 9/4/08
An international media advocacy group has criticised the US military for not fully investigating the deaths of three journalists killed when their hotel and Al Jazeera’s office came under US fire as Baghdad fell on April 8, 2003. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says it has continuously called on the US military to fully investigate the incidents that came just before the statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled. “The Pentagon has never credibly explained the strike on the Baghdad bureau on Al Jazeera, despite our repeated calls to investigate it,” Joel Campagna, CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa senior programme co-ordinator, said.
See; http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F3EC5DD7-13D6-4FF0-B37C-7D97E38B883E.htm