Where in the World is Christiane Amanpour?

[sunny]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060107/ts_nm/iraq_kidnapping_dc">news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060...napping_dc</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen kidnapped a female U.S. journalist in Baghdad on Saturday after shooting dead her driver, police said. <br><br> <br>They said she had been on her way to a meeting with a Sunni Arab leader when she was kidnapped in the Adel district near Malik bin Anas mosque in west Baghdad.<br><br>Immediately after the incident, American and Iraqi troops sealed off the area, witnesses said.<br><br>Thousands of civilians have been kidnapped since the fall of Saddam Hussein, including more than 200 foreigners seized by gangs seeking ransom or insurgents trying to force their governments to withdraw from Iraq. Many hostages have been released, but around 50 have been killed.<br><br>There has been a spate of kidnappings of Westerners over the past few months after a lull during most of 2005. Four Christian peace activists and a French engineer are among those still being held captive.<br><br>The wife of the British captive, 74-year-old Norman Kember, called on his abductors to free him in a televised appeal on Friday, saying he was "a man of peace."<br><br>Kember, American Tom Fox and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Sooden were kidnapped on November 26 in Baghdad, where they were working with a Christian peace organization, by a group calling itself the Swords of Truth. <br><br>____________________________________________________<br><br>Just asking. Would it be out of the realm of possibility?<br> <p></p><i></i>

[anon]

could be, but she's kind of a shill, isn't she? Where'd she first show up as the intrepid reporter, in Kosovo? I may be ofrf-base, but it seems to me that over time she has proven to be the type who does a stand-up somewhere with an 'authentic' background, and authoritatively informs us of only part of the truth, and guess whose part ... <p></p><i></i>

[sunny]

Maybe so, but not quite shilly enough for the neocons.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2003-09-14-media-mix_x.htm">www.usatoday.com/life/col...-mix_x.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship."<br>As criticism of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a chorus of journalists and pundits who charge that the media largely toed the Bush administrationline in covering the war and, by doing so, failed to aggressively question the motives behind the invasion.<br><br>On last week's Topic A With Tina Brown on CNBC, Brown, the former Talk magazine editor, asked comedian Al Franken, former Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clarke and Amanpour if "we in the media, as much as in the administration, drank the Kool-Aid when it came to the war."<br><br>Said Amanpour: "I think the press was muzzled, and I think the press self-muzzled. I'm sorry to say, but certainly television and, perhaps, to a certain extent, my station was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did."<br>~snip~<br>Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said of Amanpour's comments: "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda." <br><br>CNN had no comment.<br><br>____________________________________________________<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chr...e_Amanpour</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>She is of Iranian descent.<br>____________________________________________________<br><br>Was Amanpour Tapped by NSA?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002621.html">www.pnionline.com/dnblog/...02621.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>____________________________________________________<br><br>No one has identified the female journalist as of yet, may not be her. Just thought it an interesting question. <p></p><i></i>

[ivanbo2003]

Anon you are so right about Kosovo "event".She told only one part of the story unfortunately.And now ,Kosovo is the largest drug deposit/factory in Europe...Every day another incident and shooting of non-Albanians.<br>And yes,almost no Serbs and non-Albanians in the area...Clear example of ethnic cleansing.<br>Where is she to report this fact now?<br><br>PS I sure hope she is not kidnaped or something.She is a human being and deserves to live,even so she reported the way she did. <p></p><i></i>

[slomo]

Apparently the name is Jil Kieily. I can't find a link yet, but this is being discussed at Escaton (Duncan Black's site):<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=atrios&comment=113665097165463261">www.haloscan.com/comments...7165463261</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>