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The News We Kept to Ourselves


Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.

Ţetta er magnađ ţegar mađur spáir í ţví. Fréttamenn voru í Írak, urđu vitni ađ allskonar óhugnađi en gátu ekki flutt af ţví fréttir ţví ţá vćri alveg pottţétt ađ heimildarmenn ţeirra og ađstođarmenn myndu láta lífiđ auk ţess sem fréttastofurnar yrđu reknar úr landi.

Hvađa gagn er af fréttamönnum sem geta ekki sagt frá ţví sem ţeir sjá og heyra?

I felt awful having these stories bottled up inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely.
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