イラク戦争

また海外サイト。
といっても、報道サイトではなく、
ジャーナリスト団体のサイトです。

http://www.cpj.org/

このなかに「ジャーナリストにとって、
世界で最も危険な場所１０か所」
http://www.cpj.org/enemies/worst_places_04/worst_places_04.html

という記事がありまして。
のぞいてみると、一番バッターは、イラク。

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More than a year after the war in Iraq began, the country remains the most dangerous place in the world to work as a journalist. Twenty-five journalists have been killed in action in Iraq since March 2003. Twelve have been killed in 2004 alone?all of them Iraqis.

Postwar Iraq is fraught with risks for reporters: Banditry, gunfire, and bombings are common. Insurgents have added a new threat by systematically targeting foreigners, including journalists, and Iraqis who work for them. At least six Iraqi media workers have been murdered, and several more have received threats. Armed groups have abducted some eight journalists in 2004, though all have been released.

U.S. forces pose an additional threat to working journalists: at least seven?and possibly as many as nine?journalists have been killed by gunfire from U.S. forces. Other journalists?mostly Arab or Iraqi?have been detained and suffered mistreatment at the hands of U.S. forces

ということで。