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April 12, 2003
Release Number: 03-04-108
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. MARINES RECOVER JOURNALISTS
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Marines from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force recovered four journalists from the Ibn Al Nafees Hospital in Baghdad yesterday.
Marines found one journalist dead upon their arrival at the hospital. Two of the journalists were injured April 8th when they were caught in a firefight at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The fourth journalist was uninjured.
The two injured journalists are being treated at a field hospital southeast of Baghdad.
The names of the reporters are being withheld.
CENTCOM press releases can be found at www.centcom.mil
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