Journalists under threat ‘from our failure to use real words’

EVERY second day an American soldier is killed in Iraq, but this and almost daily attacks on US forces are not reported in the West, Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk told the World Association of Newspapers congress in Dublin yesterday.

He warned that Anglo-American authorities in control of Iraq had set up a legal committee to organise press censorship.

The aim, according to one diplomat, was to eliminate the "wilder" stories that might provoke incitement or ethnic hatred.