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...doctor, a medical correspondent, not a bang-bang journalist. But I noticed all the Marines around me were hitting the deck. Five seconds later, the alarm "Bunker! Bunker! Bunker!" blared over the p.a. system. Over the next 20 hours, I would share with 70 Marines and two CNN colleagues the same space and the same occupation: target...
...hours after I arrived, a helicopter dropped off a soldier with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was an Iraqi prisoner. The young man was immediately taken to the operating room, with CNN providing live coverage. "Medical triage, not political triage," said Dr. John Perciballi, the lead surgeon. During my six-day stay, they treated 64 patients, 70% of whom were Iraqis, with injuries varying from gunshot wounds to broken limbs to amputation completions. This is difficult work even absent a war. Yet the surgeons sometimes operated wearing gas masks while alarms sounded in the distance...
When I arrived back at my hotel in Kuwait I was told I had to do a live interview immediately with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. I was so overcome with emotion that I had to steady myself before answering his questions about the missile attack and the Devil Docs. At the end of the interview, he told me and all the viewers that I needed a shower because I didn't smell very good. For the first time in a long while, I smiled. I was now a war correspondent...
...discuss the brutalities of war and the technicalities of law in the same breath. But it was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has heretofore made no secret of his impatience with legalisms, who launched this salvo last week: "It's a violation of the Geneva Convention," he angrily told CNN, "[for Iraqi TV] to be showing prisoners of war in a humiliating manner." Rumsfeld was reacting to news that al-Jazeera network had broadcast Iraqi TV images of bruised, terrified American prisoners of war being questioned by Iraqi reporters. Opponents of the war responded that the U.S. had consistently belittled...
...have to join the Air Force to fly over Iraq. As anybody who has watched CNN's Baghdad bomb-damage reports knows, it's now easy to pull up satellite images of a major military target and dive into a 3-D landscape rich in hills and valleys, all built from real-world data. Zoom in close enough, and you can see cars on the streets, the shadows of trees and the swimming pools of Saddam's palaces...