Here’s a chilling account by a London Sunday Times journalist of escaping from Baghdad after being targeted for assassination:
“You have been named as a target — there is a specific danger,” my contact had told me, warning me not to go outside.
Unfortunately, there was no official body to turn to amid the chaos of Iraq. I felt angry, vulnerable and helpless. In short, I suddenly knew what it was to be an Iraqi.
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I had interviewed people on the run but never once did I imagine that I too might be marked out for murder simply for doing my job.