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Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism has presented their award for integrity this year to a journalist, Atwar Bahjat, who was kidnapped and killed in Iraq...
...Bahjat, who was a correspondent for the Dubai-based news service, Al Arabiya, was covering a bombing in Samarra, Iraq, near the time of her death...
...Atwar Bahjat stood out [from the other candidates] because so many of her fellow Iraqis saw her as a courageous voice for unity in a war-torn country,” said Heath. “Bahjat was half-Shiite and half-Sunni and called for unity even in her last broadcast...
...Bahjat Jaber was a bachelor millionaire and landowner with an overwhelming passion: he really wanted to be a police reporter. As a result, when the war broke out Jaber, a Greek Catholic, eagerly took on the assignment of totting up its casualties day by day. He checked hospital reports and the various warring forces, whose figures, while self-serving, were at least a basis on which to work. An important source was Hisham Shaar, chief of Lebanon's national police, whose network relayed not only the locations of new battles but also their ferocity...
Palace Plot? In any showdown with the fedayeen, Hussein can count on the loyalty of Jordan's 20,000 Bedouins, whom he has recently been placing in army units, but not on his politicians. Last week angry fedayeen leaders called on Hussein's Prime Minister, Bahjat Talhouni, to claim that they had discovered a palace plot to arrest some commandos and pressure politicians to cease supporting them. As Palestinian refugees braced for battle, the Cabinet sided with the fedayeen, conceding them full freedom of movement and promising to resign en masse should the plan go through...