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FIVE years ago today I was lying in a ditch in the Iraq countryside with a handful of other journalists taking cover from incoming mortar fire.
With the war barely days old, some die-hard Iraqi soldiers at that time still believed they could hold out against the advancing British and American military onslaught. It was a terrifying but exhilarating time - one of those moments every reporter lives for when you genuinely have a ringside seat to history.See the full content of this document
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Don't Kill the Messengers of Truth Realpolitik
Even now, five years on, those weeks are indelibly etched in my mind. Never to be forgotten was the chilling atmosphere I encountered still lingering inside the cells of an Iraqi secret police jail that I visited in...
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