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In 2003, US forces killed journalists at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel. At the same time, the Baghdad offices of Al Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV were targeted for broadcasting graphic footage.
In 2005, Italian journalist Guiliana Sgrena was abducted and held hostage. Italian intelligence officers helped free her. En route to Baghdad International Airport heading home, US forces targeted them.
Nicola Calipari, a military intelligence major general was killed. Sgrena and another officer were wounded but escaped alive. At the time, an international outcry followed the incident.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Press Freedom in Iraq
In August 2010, RSF published a report titled, "The Iraq War: A Heavy Death Toll for the Media: 2003 - 2010." It called it "the most lethal for journalists since World War II."
From March 2003 - August 2010, 230 died. Virtually no prosecutions followed.
Iraq's also "the world's biggest market for hostages." Over the same period, 93 journalists and other media professionals were abducted. At least 42 were executed. Another 14 remain missing.
Worse still, US forces arbitrarily and illegally target, arrest, detain, and kill independent journalists. They still do.
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