Hello From the land of the Pharaohs Egypt: "Imagine this scenario. You're a journalist. A man phones you on your cellular phone and informs you that he needs you to bring your camera and go to a certain house. The man tells you that he wants to murder a lady there and he wants 'his story told'.

You pick up your camera and head to this house. You enter it and find the man waiting for you. You start filming or shooting as the man plants a bullet into the poor lady's head. You then switch off your camera and return to your office with 'the man's story'.

Now, Jack Stokes, director of media relations at the Associated Press, is trying to convince us that AP's hired photographers do not act in the same way as the jounalist in my story above. He and his bosses at AP are trying to tell us that they employ Iraqi photographers who "do not have to swear allegiance or otherwise join up philosophically with them (insurgents "emphasis added by GM") just to take their pictures." They are trying to tell us that their "invisible" photographer knew nothing about the execution of the 2 Iraqi heroes and that he/she was informed that he/she will just cover a "demonstration". Ummmmmm, something doesn't smell nice here. A demonstration in one of Iraq's most dangerous streets! Was the AP photographer expecting just "a demonstration" in Haifa street?? Go to any Iraqi and tell him the word "Haifa street", he will answer back with words such as "bombs, a famous Saddam loyalist street, clashes, etc"."

(Indirectly, via Iraq The Model.)