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August 13, 2005
Will Photos of Caskets of U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Show Cost of War?
Former UPI White House Correspondent Helen Thomas, who now gets on the White House's nerves as a columnist for Hearst Newspapers, wrote August 12, 2005, that, The American people, sheltered for the last two years from some photos of the grim reality of the war in Iraq, are beginning to see more pictures of the kind that had previously been suppressed.
Ms. Thomas said "As the result of a freedom of information lawsuit," by former CNN broadcaster Ralph Begleiter, who is now a journalism professor at the University of Delaware, "the Pentagon has now agreed to release "as expeditiously as possible" some photographs of the caskets of American servicemen and women.
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Posted by Munir Umrani at August 13, 2005 12:38 PM
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