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Listening to Hugh Hewitt, and Ed from Captain’s Quarter’s has been digging up stuff on Eason Jordon, and relaying it to Hugh. Lookit at what he found:

US military ’still failing to protect journalists in Iraq’

Independent journalists operating in Iraq face arrest and even torture at the hands of the US military and the authorities are failing to act on promises to do more to protect them, news organisations have warned.

Eason Jordan, chief news executive at CNN, said there had been only a “limited amount of progress”, despite repeated meetings between news organisations and the US authorities.

“Actions speak louder than words. The reality is that at least 10 journalists have been killed by the US military, and according to reports I believe to be true journalists have been arrested and tortured by US forces,” Mr Jordan told an audience of news executives at the News Xchange conference in Portugal.

Mr Jordan highlighted the case of al-Arabiya journalist Abdel Kader al-Saadi, who was arrested in Falluja last week by US forces and remains in their custody even though no reason has yet been given for his detention.

This is the guy, of course, who I referred to earlier today, at Davos, Switzerland last week accusing American troops of assassinating journalists. He said this in public, in front of foreigners, many of whom are aligned against us, or associated with our enemies, and there is no video or recording of it yet.

This would, apparently, establish a trend, so the CNN emails other blogs are getting, trying to say that his comments were taken out of context, are ridiculous and should not be taken seriously.

Update:

Yeah, this definitely isn’t a rumour. PowerLine just got a phone call, not a form email, from CNN public relations. Being the honorable and ethical guy that he is, Hindrocket declined to repeat the off-the-record conversation. (nuts)