Ned Parker, a top American journalist and former Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters, fled Iraq today amid growing threats from Shi’ite militias in that nation, who demanded either his expulsion or his death.
The militias are angry that Reuters reporters covered a mob of Iraqi police summarily executing a detained ISIS suspect, hacking him to death in what they said was revenge for the death of a police colonel in the battle of Tikrit.
Though in this case the lynching was carried out by Iraqi government workers, it added to growing complaints about the troops and militias carrying out sectarian attacks in the wake of retaking Sunni cities from ISIS.
The Iraqi military promised an “investigation” into the killing of the detainee, but appeared not to make any effort at all to stem the tide of death threats against Reuters for unveiling it, which finally forced Parker from the nation.
REUTERS is no longers a news service but an organ of EuroCentrics military political war machinery.
Propaganda and psy warfare agents do not deserve nomenclature "journalist" and deserve no special distinction as non combattants no matter where conflicts are ongoing..
The "Fourth Estate," no matter the State or Corporate Banners, they hide behind are but now part and Parcel as "The Fourh Branch"
As "Corporates they cannot exist outside of "Government Limitations"" and those leeches profit just as do they who make and use the arms of warfare and are one of main reasons legitimate non alighned journalist become targets
Best news I have heard today.
Parker needs to contemplate on Matthew 7:5 KJV:
'Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.'