IndUK: Climate of Fear But Journalists Insist They Will Remain in Baghdad

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http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article322043.ece

Climate of fear but journalists insist they will remain in Baghdad

By Ciar Byrne, Media Correspondent
Published: 25 October 2005
News organisations that still have a presence in Baghdad insist they will stay in the Iraqi capital after yesterday's bomb blasts close to the Palestine Hotel, the base for many foreign journalists there.

The BBC, CNN, Sky, Reuters and the Associated Press all said they had no plans to withdraw correspondents, despite the attack on a location once regarded as a media safe house.

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Sky News and ITN said they do not currently have any journalists in Iraq. The Guardian, following the abduction and subsequent release of its reporter Rory Carroll in Baghdad last week, has withdrawn all staff from the Iraqi capital pending a review of its coverage of the situation, a spokesman for the newspaper said.

Last week, The Independent's veteran correspondent Robert Fisk said the situation in Baghdad had become so dangerous that he could only spend 10 minutes at a scene before local gunmen would appear and threaten him.

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