Reuters Says U.S. Troops Obstruct Reporting of Iraq

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001217159

LONDON (Reuters) The conduct of U.S. troops in Iraq, including increasing detention and accidental shootings of journalists, is preventing full coverage of the war reaching the American public, Reuters said on Wednesday.

In a letter to Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner, head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Reuters said U.S. forces were limiting the ability of independent journalists to operate.

The letter from Reuters Global Managing Editor David Schlesinger called on Warner to raise widespread media concerns about the conduct of U.S. troops with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who is due to testify to the committee on Thursday.

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At least 66 journalists and media workers, most of them Iraqis, have been killed in the Iraq conflict since March 2003.