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Press defies Iraqi demand to quit Najaf
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1284221,00.html
Owen Gibson, chief reporter
Monday August 16, 2004
Newspapers today vowed to resist calls from the Iraqi government for their journalists to leave Najaf, the city at the centre of fighting between US and Iraqi forces and militants loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr.
Most of the newspapers with correspondents in Najaf said they were concerned for the safety of staff there but would resist calls from the Iraqi police to leave the city, relying on the judgment of their reporters on the ground to determine the risks.
The Daily Telegraph foreign editor, Alan Philps, said that Adrian Blomfield, the paper's correspondent in Najaf who today reported that shots were fired overnight at the hotel where foreign journalists were staying, would remain in the city.
"We took the view that we didn't want to be told what to do by the police. We're keeping the situation under constant review," he said.
The Times also confirmed that its correspondent, Stephen Farrell, was staying in Najaf.
Downing Street said officials had contacted the Iraqi authorities over reports that journalists had been ordered to leave the city, where US forces have been fighting militants loyal to the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
But the government played down suggestions that the move represented a threat to free speech.
"We are in touch with the Iraqi authorities and the UK media about these reports," said a spokeswoman.
"I think we should not be too hasty to turn this into a debate about free speech. There is quite a lively media in Iraq for the first time in years.
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"I think decisions about the presence of the media in Najaf is one for the Iraqi authorities. We are sure that any action taken by them is consistent with the security situation.
"Nobody can be complacent about the situation in Iraq. The Foreign Office travel advice advises against all but the most essential travel to Iraq."
Najaf's police chief, Ghalab Jazaree, yesterday told reporters they had two hours to get out of the city and return to Baghdad. But Iraqi officials insisted they were not trying to gag reporters, but only to protect them.
"We know you are neutral journalists, even though you have not reported the bad actions by Sadr people when they beheaded and burned innocent people and the Iraqi police," Mr Jazaree told reporters, adding: "We are protecting you".
The police chief said he would not be able to arrest foreign journalists but would give orders for their translators and drivers to be arrested.
However, Stephen Farrell of the Times today quoted an Iraqi policeman as saying: "You've got two hours to leave or we are going to open fire at you. It's just our orders."
Blomfield of the Telegraph said that to begin with around 30 foreign journalists had said they would stay in Najaf but when they were threatened with being shot if they refused, "all but a handful of British and American journalists" left the city.
The Independent's Donald MacIntyre is among those who have remained in the city but the Guardian has decided not to send anyone to Najaf until the situation becomes clearer. Luke Harding and Michael Howard remain in Baghdad.
The BBC said that it was not affected because its reporters had pulled out of Najaf on Friday and returned to Baghdad.
Yesterday afternoon a convoy of journalists, including those from the Independent, the Daily Telegraph and the Times, briefly came under machine gun fire in the streets of the old city.
Meanwhile, a US journalist has disappeared along with his Iraqi translator in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, the provincial deputy governor confirmed this morning.
The two went missing Friday as they were walking through a busy market, said Adnan al-Shoraify, the deputy governor of Dhi Qar province. He said the translator's family had first reported the two missing.
Al-Shoraify identified the journalist as Micah Garen and said he worked for US-based Four Corners Media. He said the missing Iraqi's name was Amir Doushi.
The issue of journalists' safety was dramatically highlighted on Friday when militants in the southern city of Basra kidnapped Sunday Telegraph journalist James Brandon and threatened to kill him.
He escaped but was recaptured. The 23-year-old was eventually released after aides to militant Shia cleric al-Sadr demanded he be freed.
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