AP President: Protest letter to Pentagon

U.S. Troops More Hostile With Reporters

AP/Guardian -Thursday November 13, 2003 12:16 AM

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - With casualties mounting in Iraq, jumpy U.S. soldiers are becoming more aggressive in their treatment of journalists covering the conflict.

Media people have been detained, news equipment has been confiscated and some journalists have suffered verbal and physical abuse while trying to report on events.

...The president of the Associated Press Managing Editors, an association of editors at AP's more than 1,700 newspapers in the United States and Canada, sent a protest letter to the Pentagon on Wednesday urging officials to ``immediately take the steps to end such confrontations.''

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