Baghdad's Strung Out Stringers

These days it is almost impossible for Western journalists and photographers to work outside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad unless they go down the embed route which has its own consequences.

As a result many of the news organisations have to rely on Iraqi stringers to report on events and many of them have been killed and those still working face the possibility of death on a daily basis.

"My wife has begged me to quit my job and even to leave Iraq," Abdul says. "But I told her that every day tens of Iraqis are being killed for no reason, and they will be forgotten otherwise. To die as a journalist, I would know that I was killed while I was reporting the truth. I would die proud."

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