One of Mr Longley's Iraqi translators was shot to death in January, while on the job with an American reporter.

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Pakistan said it was the first time in years that an American reporter had been given permission to enter the tightly controlled area.

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And I want to play you the comments of Fadi Sarjeri(ph), who also wanted to practice his English with an American reporter who came to his camp.

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Caldwell said al-Jubouri was connected with the 2006 kidnapping of Carroll, an American freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor held captive for nearly three months.

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He certainly remembers his past treatment by the Western press, expounding at length to FORBES ASIA on the omissions in a decade-old story on Paiton by an American newspaper reporter whose name he still remembers.

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After watching this programme tonight I was horrified to hear an American say there was security when your reporter questioned him.

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