http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cnnbloodonhands/ en-us Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:16:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/890515/posts ATLANTA — Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff. For example, in the mid-1990's one of our Iraqi cameramen was abducted. For weeks he was beaten and subjected to electroshock torture in the basement of a secret police headquarters because he... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/890515/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:16:06 GMT