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Media Watch -- 04/01/1989 -- Page One: Reporters First, Americans ... In a future war involving U.S. soldiers what would a TV reporter do if he learned the enemy troops with which he was traveling were about to launch a surprise attack on an American unit? That's just the question Harvard University professor Charles Ogletree Jr, as moderator of PBS' Ethics in America series, posed to ABC anchor Peter Jennings and 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace. Both agreed getting ambush footage for the evening news would come before warning the U.S. troops.

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Clintonized CIA Snubs Key Iraqi Dissident Group The decision to marginalize the Iraqi National Congress, carried forward into the Bush-era under Clinton appointed CIA Director George Tenet, is making the task of liberation more difficult, the Wall Street Journal said Monday, by complicating efforts of U.S. forces to gain the trust of the Iraqi people.

The Iraqi National Congress is the only opposition movement that can count among its members significant numbers of Kurds, Arabs, Sunni Muslims and Shiites, the paper adds. The INC happens also to be the only dissident group that has had any military success against Saddam.

"The CIA and State may be hopeless as they try to protect their past misjudgments," the paper concludes.

New Petition: Transform Iraq into beacon Albert Yelda, an Assyrian Christian with influence over more than 1.5 million Iraqi Christians, including Assyrians and Chaldeans. Yelda, cofounder of the Iraqi National Congress, split off from the Moslem-dominated group in 1999 to form the Iraqi National Coalition. He has been part of the Iraqi opposition since 1973, while living in Iraq.

USATODAY.com - Ex-Iraq officers discuss ousting Saddam Albert Yelda, co-founder of the Iraqi National Coalition, said the meeting would be the largest gathering ever of exiled Iraqi officers. He said they hope to unify those in exile and still inside Iraq in "establishing a democratic regime where the Iraqis, Assyrians, Christians, Muslims, Arabs, Kurds and Turkomans can live peacefully and equally."

Iraqis call for post-war self-rule The leader of a new group of Iraqi opposition figures in exile has rejected plans for a US military administration in post-war Iraq, and called for a UN-backed transitional authority to be set up.

The gathering of the Independent Iraqis for Democracy (IID) opened this morning. It was attended by participants from around the world, many from the United States, including Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims and Kurds.

The IID consists mainly of liberal, independent figures. Participants at the meeting also included two important religious Shi'ite figures, Mohamed Bahr al Ulum, and Hussein al Sadr.

It is keen to distinguish itself from the mainstream US-backed opposition, which consists of six groups including the Iraqi National Congress (INC) of Ahmed Chalabi and the two main Kurdish parties.

Media Watch -- 04/01/1989 -- Page One: Reporters First, Americans ... In a future war involving U.S. soldiers what would a TV reporter do if he learned the enemy troops with which he was traveling were about to launch a surprise attack on an American unit?

Why Americans Hate the Media - 96.02

Great finds! THanks.

Media Watch -- 04/01/1989 -- Page One: Reporters First, Americans ... In a future war involving U.S. soldiers what would a TV reporter do if he learned the enemy troops with which he was traveling were about to launch a surprise attack on an American unit?

Why Americans Hate the Media - 96.02

Great finds! THanks.