The war in Vietnam lasted 20 years, and 63 journalist died.
In 2.5 years of the Iraq occupation, the USA and its allies have killed 66 journalists.
Are they trying to hide the truth?
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=23487
More journalists have been killed in the war in Iraq that started in March 2003 than those killed during the Vietnam War that lasted for 20 years, media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) confirmed on Sunday.
The Paris-based RSF announced the coalition powers led by the US have killed 66 journalists and media staff since the beginning of the Iraq War in March 2003. The RSF noted that the death toll during the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975 was 63. Declaring Iraq as the most dangerous country for journalists, the RSF reported that a total of 22 journalists have so far been abducted but all of them, except Italian Enzo Baldoni, who was killed, have been released. Cameraman Paul Moran from the Australian TV network ABC was the first killed by a car bomb on March 22, 2003, while two other journalists have been missing since March 2003 and August 2004. Lastly, Velid Halid, an Iraqi audio technician from British Reuters, was killed in Iraq on Sunday, while cameraman Haydar Kazim was injured. US soldiers have taken the injured cameraman into custody.
A total of 49 journalists were killed during the war in former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995, while 57 journalists and 20 media staff were killed during the civil war in Algeria between 1993 and 1996.