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Since Guardian correspondent Rory Carroll was briefly kidnapped in Baghdad and the paper recalled its reporters while it reviewed the situation, there…
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[Tom Engelhardt’s dispatches have been posted on ZNet for more than two years now, earning him this autobiographical pitch and a poem…
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