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Targets: Reporters in Iraq
Country:Canada
Director:Maziar Bahari
Program:Contemporary World Cinema
Year:
2005
Summary:
At the time when Maziar Bahari made this documentary, over 100 journalists had been killed or kidnapped in Iraq. The film contains original footage and photographs, accompanied by ominous music and Bahari’s voice-over. He interviews several journalists who were kidnapped, among whom Scott Taylor, who reluctantly returns to Iraq to tell American soldiers about his abduction.While some journalists get kidnapped and even killed by the many insurgent groups, others end up getting killed by American soldiers at check points. This is what happened to the Italian intelligence officer who arranged the release of the kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena, whom Bahari also interviewed.
