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Rageh Omaar of the BBC rebuts allegations of bias toward the Iraq regime in his reports from Baghdad

In today's Sunday Telegraph, Rageh Omaar refutes allegations that his reports from Baghdad show pro-Iraqi bias. I think it is well-worth reading to explain to people in democracies just how things operate in tyrannies like Iraq.

Another article in the same paper today by Nic Robertson, a senior CNN reporter recently thrown out of Iraq for reporting in a way the Iraqis found 'unhelpful', sheds further useful light, I think, on the pressures facing western journalists in Iraq.