MONDAY,MARCH 24,2003
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the U.S. and invitations to American and European reporters.
The Iranian Prime Minister, who appeared to be aligned with the anti-west faction, said the police arrested Seib because he had asked unusual questions while visiting the war front.
Seib, now the Wall Street Journal Bureau chief in Washington D.C., said correspondents had become a tool for political means. Extremist groups and political factions are interested in correspondents because of the amount of coverage their capture provides.
"They wanted to grab an American to make a point, to both the interior and exterior, that they weren't going to let American spies run around in Tehran," Seib said. "There is the tendency today to wonder if this journalist is really a journalist, or an agent of the government."
Daniel Pearl's abduction and murder is more evidence of using correspondents to further political means. The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty, a Muslim extremist group, kidnapped The Wall Street Journal reporter in late January 2002. In their first email to recipients at major news corporations and government agencies, the kidnappers accused Pearl of being an agent in the CIA. They also gave their conditions of his release, notably the release of Pakistanis held at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the handing over of F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft that Pakistan purchased from the U.S. in the 1980s. The U.S. never delivered the aircraft because of sanctions placed on Pakistan in response to its nuclear weapons program. The kidnappers murdered Pearl sometime in February 2002.
"In many places, they believe that you are a member of the CIA," said Barbara Rosewisz,
Types of information not allowed for release
Photography showing level of security.
Rules of engagement.
Information on effectiveness of enemy camouflage, cover, deception, targeting, direct and indirect fire, intelligence collection, or security measures.
Information on effectiveness of enemy electronic warfare.
Information on missing or downed aircraft or missing vessels while search and rescue and recovery operations are being planned or underway.
- Photographs or broadcast showing an enemy prisoner of war or detainee's "face, name tag or other identifying feature."
Types of releasable information
Approximate friendly casualty figures by service.
Seib's wife. She is a 1978 University of Kansas graduate and a Wall Street Journal correspondent, and was stationed with Seib in Cairo from 1985 to 1987.
Rosewisz said being a female foreign correspondent could be more difficult than being a male correspondent because women received much more attention in many countries.
"Some countries, you can't just be a 'fly on the wall,'" she said. "You're always the center of attention. Gerry would walk down the streets of Tripoli, Libya, unnoticed, but the young men would walk up and flirt with me."
Despite the unpredictability of combat and the increasing dangers correspondents face, they are willing to cover hot spots wherever and whenever they arise.
"We don't do this job to be paid the best salaries; we do this job because it is a mission for us, to go to other countries around the world where events are happening and to make the world aware," Rosewisz said. "If I don't
Within certain limits, embedded media may confirm unit casualties they have witnessed. Report of casualties must wait 72 hours or until notification of next of kin.
Figures on enemy personnel detained or captured.
Size of friendly force participating in an action or operation can be disclosed using approximate terms.
Information and location of military targets and objectives previously under attack.
Generic description of origin of air operations, such as "land-based," or "sea-based."
Types of ordinance expended in general terms.
Number of missions or sorties flown.
Names and hometown of military units and service member names and hometowns with their consent.
Source: Department of Defense
live overseas again, I would be disappointed. And to write about war and peace, life and death the risk is worth making the world aware."
The war in Iraq
The war in Iraq has already seen correspondents as casualties. Approximately 600 correspondents are located in Iraq, covering the U.S. led war against Saddam Hussein and his regime. Two correspondents have died in the war. Paul Moran, a freelance cameraman with the Australian Broadcasting Corp., was killed at a checkpoint in the mountainous Kurdish territory in northeast Iraq when a supposed Islamic extremist detonated himself in a suicide car bomb. More notably, British ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed on Saturday. He and his crew of three disappeared during a fire fight on the road to Basra, Iraq's second-largest city southeast of Baghdad.
Cameraman Daniel Demoustier was injured but was
recovered. He said they were in marked press vehicles traveling from the city of Iman Anas when they came under fire. They were pursued by Iraqi troops who may have been attempting to surrender to the journalists when they were caught in a fire fight between Iraqi and coalition forces.
Lloyd's body and identification were found in Basra. The other two crew members remain missing in action. Lloyd was the first reporter to go into the town of Halabje in Iraq after Saddam Hussein dropped a chemical bomb on his own Kurdish people in 1988. Terry got the first exclusive pictures and report out with bodies still lying where they fell. The 50-year-old, married with two children, had just celebrated his 20th anniversary with ITN, making him ITN News' longest serving reporter. He was also the first correspondent killed on assignment in ITN's 48-year history.
The Department of Defense has requested freelance correspondents to exercise extreme caution. The department has approximately 600 journalists "embedded" in Army, Marine, Navy and Air Force units. This is the first time since World War II that journalists have been involved in the day to day actions of military units. The reporters must have agreed to a set of ground rules, issued by the department, that outline 14 "releasable" categories of information, and 19 "not releasable." That's because their publication or broadcast could jeopardize operations and endanger lives.
Similarly, the reporters must have the permission from the unit commander before filing a story. However, "in the event of commercial communications difficulties, media are authorized to file stories via expeditious military signal/communications capabilities. No communications equipment for use by media in the conduct of their duties will be specifically prohibited."
- Edited by Ryan Wood
Heard on the Hill
Compiled by Nikki Overfelt
air transportation so for a while I didn't think I would get back to school.I was scared we were going to get attacked again."
Emma Hayes New York freshman
"I was at home and it all of the sudden came on TV. It didn't really scare me because we knew it was coming.I ended up watching a lot of news instead of normal TV. I'm worried about my friends who are
overseas."
Where were you when you found out the United States was at war with Iraq? How did it affect your break?
Alyssa Mitchell Hopkins, Minn., freshman
"I was in a hot tub in South Padre. The streets were quiet and there was a lot less traffic. People went out a lot less." James Wheatley Yorkshire, England, junior
"I was taking part in an Urban Plunge in Washington, D.C.
We didn't have a TV, so we looked to find information in newspapers. The atmosphere has been intense there for a week and peace protests heightened throughout the week."
Emma Osborne Hellensborough, Scotland, junior
"I was in a hot tub in South Padre. We were talking about
it in Padre and wondered how many people knew and how many people cared about it." Stephanie Benedict Lenexa junior