NEW YORK -- Scott Pelley and Jane Arraf are two of the Pentagon's worst nightmares. Not because they have angered the military with their reporting in Iraq, but they have covered the war unencumbered from the Pentagon's grip as "unilateral" reporters free to roam Iraq as roving correspondents rather than being "embedded" with a particularly military unit. Whether they were reporting from Saddam Hussein's destroyed palace in Basra or outside a cave in Sheikh Kidri, CBS' Pelley and CNN's Arraf have covered a different war than the embeds. "We've been able to break away and do whatever we think is important and whatever is appropriate for that day," Arraf said of her freedom. Pelley, who is reporting mainly for "60 Minutes II", and Arraf, the former Baghdad bureau chief who is returning there, have covered opposite sides of the war: Pelley from the south, where he has had to forage for food and supplies, and Arraf in the wild and woolly north covering the Kurds where supplies were plentiful but the weather and terrain frightful. Both got closer to the war than most of the embeds, at times reporting from the front lines. Safety concerns and smelling the action are often mutually exclusive goals for the unilaterals. Mortality came close to Pelley right from the start when one of his unilateral colleagues -- the ITV's Terry Lloyd -- was killed March 23 when his crew was attacked in southern Iraq. "We saw him not long before he was killed," Pelley said from Basra. "We were both trying to figure out a way get over the border. We talked to each other and agreed it was very difficult. He went one way, and I went another."...
- 4/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A Pulitzer Prize-winning BBC cameraman was killed and a BBC producer injured when they stepped on land mines while filming in Kurdish northern Iraq, the pubcaster said Thursday. BBC director of news Richard Sambrook told reporters that Iranian-born Kaveh Golestan, 52, was killed instantly Wednesday afternoon in the Kurdish town of Kifri after stepping out of his car and onto a mine. BBC producer Stuart Hughes was also caught in the blast and suffered a foot injury, while the BBC's Tehran correspondent, Jim Muir, and a local translator were unhurt save for cuts and bruises. Hughes has since been taken to an American military hospital in Sulaymaniya in northern Iraq for treatment. Golestan, who is survived by his wife and 19-year-old son, won a Pulitzer for his work during the Iranian revolution. He had worked as a BBC freelance cameraman since 2001. "Kaveh Golestan was an outstanding photojournalist who worked in support of freedom of expression in his native Iran and elsewhere and was well-known to many Western news organizations," Sambrook said. "Our deepest sympathy goes to his family and friends. This once again illustrates the dangers faced by news teams covering the war in Iraq." The news came as Stewart Purvis, chief executive of British commercial news provider ITN, accused U.S. and British military leaders of concealing the details surrounding the death of veteran ITN reporter Terry Lloyd two weeks ago in what ITN claims was a "friendly fire" incident. Lloyd's colleagues, cameraman Fred Nerac and Lebanese translator Hussein Osman, are still missing and feared dead.
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