From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fiashra Gibbons | The Guardian | 23 August 2003 Jewish pressure groups are calling on a publisher to withdraw a children's book about a Palestinian boy growing up amid the intifada on the West Bank. A Little Piece of Ground, by the multi-award-winning author Elizabeth Laird, is a fictional account of how a 12-year-old called Karim - whose family's olive groves have been confiscated by settlers - copes when his father is stripped and humiliated by Israeli troops.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) | 18 August 2003 The International Federation of Journalists has called for an independent and open inquiry into the killing yesterday afternoon of a cameraman in Iraq by US troops, only days after the Federation accused the Pentagon of a “cynical whitewash” over a previous attack on media in which two journalists were killed. The shooting of Mazen Dana, an award-winning journalist working for the Reuters news agency, is “more tragic evidence of what appears to be casual disregard of journalists’ safety by military commanders,” said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Reuters | CNN | 17 August 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) -- Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana, an award-winning journalist who had covered some of the world's hottest spots, has been shot dead while filming near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses said Dana, 43, was shot by soldiers on an American tank as he filmed outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad. His last pictures show a U.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rober Fisk | Independent/Information Clearing House | 30 July 2003 30 July 2003: (The Independent) A day after Paul Wolfowitz, the US Deputy Defence Secretary, claimed that the Arabic Al-Jazeera television channel was "inciting violence" and "endangering the lives of American troops" in Iraq, the station's Baghdad bureau chief has written a scathing reply, complaining that in the past month his offices and staff in Iraq "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | BBC News | 14 July 2003 The editor of a daily Irish language newspaper has said the Northern Ireland man held by Israeli police was working as their correspondent. The man - who is in his 40s - was arrested at the weekend by Israeli security forces reportedly acting on information from UK security services. The west Belfast man was arrested near the town of Ramallah.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gørill Hus and Guri Wiggen | commondreams.org | 3 July 2003 OSLO - If the reality in Iraq is one thing and the reporting of it remains another, it is because much of the media wants it that way, say two leading journalists who have been reporting the 'other' side of the Iraq story. The level of self-censorship in the media has risen not just during the Iraq war but also since 9/11, says Robert Fisk from The Independent newspaper published in Britain and John Pilger, Australian broadcaster and film-maker.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anat Balint | Haaretz | 29 June 2003 Israel declared over the weekend that it is cutting off ties with the BBC to protest a repeat broadcast on non-conventional weapons said to be in Israel. The program was broadcast for the first time in March in Britain, and was rerun Saturday on a BBC channel that is aired all over the world. The boycott decision was made by Israel's public relations forum, made up of representatives from the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry and the Government Press Office.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joanne Levine | The Washington Post | 25 June 2006 In a country's hinterlands, a distant region seldom visited by outsiders, a television crew investigates why so many residents are fleeing the area. When local officials catch wind of the crew's presence, they begin interrogating people the journalists interviewed, and pressure others not to talk. Russia? Uzbekistan? China? No. This incident took place in North Dakota, in the heart of the United States.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Linda S. Heard | Counterpunch | 23 November 2005 On Tuesday, Britain's Daily Mirror published an explosive story riddled with implications concerning the character and intent of the US president when pursuing his so-called 'war on terror', and perhaps, shedding light on the bombing of Al Jazeera's offices in both Kabul and Baghdad. Twenty-four later, the Mirror and all other British papers had been subjected to a "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mark Townsend | The Observer | 24 April 2005 Leaked report returns Gaza Strip death of British film-maker to the spotlight Israeli soldiers stand accused this weekend of 'lying' and tampering with evidence in an attempt to obstruct an inquiry by military prosecutors into the death of British film-maker James Miller, according to internal army documents seen by The Observer. A 79-page report by the chief lawyer of the Israeli army's southern command into the shooting of Miller in the Gaza Strip details how soldiers questioned over the killing changed earlier testimonies.