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Peter Arnett Is Back
by digitalreporter at 7:46 pm EST, Apr 3, 2003

] Veteran reporter Peter Arnett is back on air from Baghdad
] reporting for the private Belgian network VTN.
]
] He has joined the channel within days of being fired by
] NBC.
]
] VTN said it will have daily reports from "one of the
] world's most famous reporters" until the end of the war.
] A state-run television channel in Greece also said Arnett
] would soon be providing nightly dispatches for it, too.
]
]
] NBC sacked Arnett on Monday for giving an unauthorised
] interview with state-run Iraqi TV, during which Arnett
] said the American-led war effort had initially failed
] because of Iraq's resistance.
]
]
] Arnett, who apologised for his "misjudgement," told VTM
] he was a "casualty of the information war".
]
]
] "There are two wars taking place. You have the war of
] bullets and bombs, then you have the information war," he
] said.


 
 
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