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For those who might as yet be unaware, a CBS cameraman has been wounded and captured by US forces in Iraq, and is suspected of working for the "insurgency." CBS: In a statement released Friday, CBS News said the man had worked as a freelancer for CBS for three months and that he was videotaping for the network when he was shot. Televised reports indicated the suspect's camera contained at least four different videos of roadside bombings. Robin Burk: It’s beginning to look as if that means that the news networks may in fact not just be reporting the news...

Looking at the latest pictures of pre-election violence in Iraq, this little gem fairly leapt out at me. Look at the pictures carefully, then read the analysis below. An Iraqi boy runs past a car just as it explodes in front of al-Nahdha High School which was scheduled to be used as a voting centre in Baghdad, January 28, 2005. Hours earlier in the same area in southern Baghdad, a car bomb exploded next to a police station, killing four Iraqi civilians, police said. REUTERS/Ali Jasim A car bursts into flames after it exploded in front of a school which...

Gerard Jackson BrookesNews.Com Monday 24 January 2005 The idea that Associated Press is in bed with terrorists might not be that far-fetched. On 19 December, 2004, in Baghdad three terrorists dragged three election workers from a car and then murdered them. By the strangest of coincidences an Associated Press photojournalist was present to take a sequence of photographs of this atrocity. Now what are the odds that the Associated Press photojournalist’s presence was a genuine coincidence? Too long in opinion of many people. Let us examine the situation in more detail. The journalist claims not to have had advanced knowledge...