Two Lebanese Journalists Reportedly Missing in S.Iraq

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Two Lebanese Journalists Reportedly Missing in S.Iraq

Two Lebanese and a Syrian journalists working for an Arab television network were missing in southern Iraq, the Oriental radio reported on Thursday.

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Two Lebanese and a Syrian journalists working for an Arab television network were missing in southern Iraq, the Oriental radio reported on Thursday.

A team working for Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV network has lost contacts with its headquarter since last Saturday, the report said.

The team consisted of a Lebanese cameraman, a Lebanese engineer and a Syrian journalist was embedded with the US 101st Airborne Division that entered into southern Iraq from Kuwait.

Many Lebanese journalists, who can speak Arabic, English and French, are working for Arab and Western media to cover the war in Iraq.

A Lebanese journalist working for British ITN television networkwas missing in Iraq. Later it was reported that he was hospitalizedin southern Iraq.

At least two journalists have been killed since the United States and Britain launched war on Iraq on March 20.

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