Pentagon expels reporter from Iraq

An American freelance journalist has been ordered out of Iraq by the Pentagon for revealing the location of a Marine unit during a television interview.

Pentagon expels reporter from Iraq

An American freelance journalist has been ordered out of Iraq by the Pentagon for revealing the location of a Marine unit during a television interview.

Philip Smucker, a freelance reporter for the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor and The Daily Telegraph of London, was not embedded with a military outfit but joined the First Marine Division on Sunday along with a Monitor photographer.

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