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To: abuelita who wrote (15034)	3/19/2003 6:10:11 PM
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CBS pulls out of Iraq, CNN transmits in secret 3/19/03 2 hours, 13 minutes ago By Steve Gorman story.news.yahoo.com LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With hours to go before bombs could begin falling, CBS pulled its news team out of Iraq (news - web sites) early Wednesday for safety reasons, leaving CNN as the only American television network with its own team in Baghdad. To minimize the risk of becoming inadvertent victims of a bombardment, CNN's team has moved out of Iraq's Ministry of Information building, considered a potential target of a U.S.-led assault, and began transmitting on Wednesday from a secret location in Baghdad, network spokeswoman Megan Mahoney told Reuters. "We've left the Ministry of Information. We left due to safety concerns," she said. Two of CNN's four-person team, correspondent Nic Robertson and producer Ingrid Formanek, were in Baghdad for CNN at the beginning of the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites), she added. Another news veteran of the 1991 conflict, former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, is reporting from Baghdad for NBC and its sister cable network MSNBC while on assignment there for the MSNBC series "National Geographic (news - web sites) Explorer." Arnett has been in the Iraqi capital for about a month with a documentary crew, National Geographic spokeswoman Ellen Stanley said. Likewise, ABC has a freelance correspondent, Richard Engel, who is reporting from Baghdad via video phone. STEADY STREAM OF DEPARTING JOURNALISTS ABC and NBC's own teams left Baghdad on Monday, joining a steady stream of journalists departing the country along with diplomats, foreign aid workers and U.N. weapons inspectors in advance of a U.S.-led assault that could come as soon as Wednesday night -- early Thursday Iraqi time. Fox News' correspondent was kicked out of Baghdad by Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government in February, after the United States expelled an Iraqi journalist assigned to the United Nations (news - web sites). In his televised address Monday night, Bush urged all remaining journalists and other foreign nationals to leave Iraq "immediately" for their own safety. CBS correspondent Lara Logan and her team left the Iraqi capital on Wednesday and drove into Jordan. "They're waiting at the Jordan-Iraq border until they can go back in," said CBS spokeswoman Sandy Genelius. "It got to the point where it's increasingly dangerous and the risks began to outweigh the benefits in the terms of what they were going to get out of Baghdad, their ability to get a story out." She said Logan and her crew would wait at the border, rather than continuing on to Jordan's capital, Amman, so they can get back into Baghdad quickly as soon as it's safe to return. In the meantime, all the major U.S. networks have agreed to share whatever video footage they get from Baghdad during the first 24 hours of an assault. In addition, the networks all have cooperative arrangements with foreign news outlets or freelancers.