EMBEDDED IN BAGHDAD
The London Times recounts what Western journalists witnessed during their recent involuntary assignment in a Baghdad prison:
"I frequently thought we were going to die," said Mr McAllester, 33, a London-born Scot raised in Edinburgh and now working for the New York Newsday newspaper.
Describing how Iraqi prisoners were in cells across a narrow corridor, Mr McAllester said that he had to turn his back to avoid watching other inmates being dragged away and tortured each night.
"We could hear screams, especially at night," he said. Unshaven, rib-thin and wearing a crumpled Thomas Pink shirt, he slowly detailed the conditions inside Abu Ghraib, where Amnesty International claims 23 political prisoners, mainly Shia Muslims, have been put to death.
Via Joanne Jacobs, a no-b.s. journalist who notes, "Peter Arnett said the Iraqi Ministry of Information treats reporters well. Well, the journalists weren't tortured themselves."