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« on: Mar 31^st, 2003, 4:13pm »

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Confusion Over Status of Geraldo Rivera in Iraq

2003-03-31 18:50:33 GMT (Reuters)
By Charles Aldinger

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Veteran reporter and former talk show host Geraldo Rivera, a correspondent for Fox News, was asked to be removed from Iraq by the U.S. military for reporting Western troop movements in the war, the Pentagon said on Monday.

But in a report from Iraq where he was about 60 miles from Baghdad with the 101st Airborne Division, Rivera, known for his provocative on-screen style, said all was well and suggested he wasn't being ejected from the country by the U.S. military for coverage of the war.

Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman later told Reuters, however, that Fox News itself had agreed to remove Rivera after the military commander where Rivera was reporting felt that he had "compromised operational security."

A Fox spokesman said: "All I can tell you is that he's still reporting from Iraq."

Rivera said in his televised report that he did not know where the reports about the alleged security violations came from but accused colleagues, including former employer NBC, of perhaps "spreading some lies about me." He suggested all was well between him and the military.

"I'm further in the country than I have ever been," Geraldo said.

"If you were to ask me on whether or not he had reported on things that were of tactical value and compromised operational security, I would have to say yes. In the eyes of the commander on the ground, he did," Whitman told Reuters.

"I would say that he is going to be leaving Iraq," added Whitman. "Fox has talked to us and they have indicated to us that they are going to remove him from the area of operations."

Whitman, who had earlier said the military was ejecting Rivera, later amended that to Fox agreeing to withdraw the correspondent.

Reports from competing media said earlier that Rivera, a former talk show host and veteran correspondent who has also reported the war in Afghanistan and high-profile stories such as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, had been accused of violating rules against compromising operational security.

Whitman said Rivera was not officially "embedded," or assigned to the unit by the military, but was covering the troops at the time.

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« Reply #1 on: Mar 31^st, 2003, 4:49pm »

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Maybe Rivera can hitch a ride out of the Country with Peter Arnette.

All I can say is. . . . . . don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!!

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« Reply #2 on: Mar 31^st, 2003, 4:58pm »

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LOL
Bumper, how is it you're always sayin' what I'm thinkin'? Are we twins or something Huh

LOL, LOL

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« Reply #3 on: Mar 31^st, 2003, 5:32pm »

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Here's more....plus a picture...

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« Reply #4 on: Apr 1^st, 2003, 9:03am »

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U.S. Military Asks Rivera to Leave -- Maybe
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 06:13 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The Pentagon says it has asked Fox News to remove correspondent Geraldo Rivera from Iraq after Rivera reported sensitive information on U.S. troop movements.

Rivera, however, says no one's told him to leave, and that it's possible a rival is "spreading lies about me."

The often-controversial Rivera was reporting from about 60 miles outside Baghdad, where troops from the Army's 101st Airborne Division were stationed. He was not officially "embedded" with the Airborne.

According to Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman, the military commander in the area asked that Rivera be removed for compromising "operational security" by reporting on troop movements.

"If you were to ask me on whether or not he had reported on things that were of tactical value and compromised operational security, I would have to say yes," Whitman tells Reuters. "In the eyes of the commander on the ground, he did."

Yet in a report on Fox News Monday (March 31), Rivera said no one had told him he had to leave. He also suggests that other journalists may have spread a rumor about him in order to get him expelled.

Whitman says that Fox News later agreed to pull Rivera from the front lines, although a spokesman for the cable channel says that "All I can tell you is that he's still reporting from Iraq."

The news of Rivera's possible removal comes on the same day that NBC and National Geographic fired correspondent Peter Arnett for giving an interview to Iraqi TV in which he said the allied war plan was failing.

Rivera also caused a stir late in 2001 with a report from Afghanistan. He filed a story from the Tora Bora region of that country saying three U.S. servicemen had been killed in a friendly-fire incident that also claimed the lives of several Afghans. The incident, however, happened several hundred miles away near the city of Kandahar.

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« Reply #5 on: Apr 1^st, 2003, 9:43am »

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Geraldo go work ar Mirror they love useless trash reporters like you!

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on Apr 1^st, 2003, 9:43am, david wrote:

Geraldo go work ar Mirror they love useless trash reporters like you!

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« Reply #7 on: Apr 1^st, 2003, 7:18pm »

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. . . . . Maybe the Mirror can get a "twofer"
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