[lbo-talk] WSJ reporter on Iraq

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
><http://poynter.org/forum/?id=misc>
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>From: [Wall Street Journal reporter] Farnaz Fassihi
>Subject: From Baghdad
>
>... I am house bound. ...  So now my most pressing concern every day is not 
>to write a kick-ass story but to stay alive and make sure our Iraqi 
>employees stay alive. In Baghdad I am a security personnel first, a 
>reporter second.
>
>It's hard to pinpoint when the 'turning point' exactly began. ...

Wonder when the next "turning point" will be.  The last evacuation 
helicopter took off from the roof of the US embassy in Saigon at 7:52 a.m., 
April 30, 1975.  Anyone care to speculate when the last US copter will lift 
off from the Green Zone?

Carl