Posted on 22/03/03
Destination Baghdad
KUWAIT CITY -- In bright red letters, my U.S. military accreditation badge announces that I am a "unilateral."It's a reminder of my lowly status, designed to make certain that no gatekeeper accidentally allows me any privileged access to the American forces. Unilateral is the Pentagon's bureaucratic term for the distrusted rabble of independent-minded journalists in Kuwait, those who are unable or unwilling to "embed" with American military units. We are outsiders, powerless and marginal, lacking any propaganda value in Washington's media strategy.
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