Los Angeles Times

Recent Events

News & Analysis

iraq and los angeles times - All News and Analysis

• Los Angeles Times endorses Obama, McCain

  - 2008-02-01

  LOS ANGELES AFP — The Los Angeles Times on Friday backed Barack Obama for the Democratic White House nomination, arguing he was the best qualified candidate to lead the United States into the future. In a glowing endorsement on the Times website which will be published in Sunday's newspaper,...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, invasion, Iraq, Leadership, Los Angeles Times, Obama, Republican

• Assessing the risks reporters in Iraq confront: 'I don't believe in the journalist as a hero.'.(Courage: War Coverage)

  - 2006-06-22

  John Burns, who is Baghdad bureau chief for The New York Times, delivered the 25th Joe Alex Morris, Jr. Memorial Lecture, held at the Nieman Foundation on March 9, 2006. This annual lecture honors Morris, a foreign correspondent with the Los Angeles Times who was killed while...

  Tags: Baghdad, heroe, Iraq, journalist, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Co.

• Anonymous Harm

  - 2006-06-01

  The backbiting that cut so deep in the relationship between the active-component Army and the Army National Guard a decade ago reared its ugly head in the press last month. This latest gash was a story in the May 8 Los Angeles Times that quoted anonymous active-component generals and other...

  Tags: Guard, Iraq, Los Angeles Times, training

• White House 'very concerned' over reports of planted Iraq news

  - 2005-12-01

  WASHINGTON AFP — The White House stepped into a burgeoning controversy over reports that the US military has paid Iraqi newspapers to run pro-American stories, saying it was "very concerned." The US military stopped short of confirming the reports in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers but spokesmen...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, FINANCE, Iraq, Los Angeles Times, Manufacturing, White House

• Kerry-Edwards Campaign: A Dose of Reality for the Excuses Presidency - Bush Can't Escape His Record of Failure

  - 2004-10-29

  "From Iraq violence and missing explosives to FBI probe, bad news dogs Bush as election nears" (Florida Times-Union, 10/29/04) BUSH CAN'T ESCAPE REALITY OF HIS WRONG CHOICES IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN -- "Video: Arms at Site After Invasion; The TV footage was Shot By an Embedded Journalist Nine Days after...

  Tags: Benefits, Bush, Escape, FBI, Government, HEALTHCARE, Iraq, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, video, Washington Post Co.

• Accused soldier gives description of Abu Ghraib brutality

  - 2004-05-14

  WASHINGTON AFP ? The first US soldier to face a court martial over the Iraq prison scandal is expected to plead guilty, according to media reports of the investigation which gave new details of the brutality faced by inmates. Specialist Jeremy Sivits will face a military tribunal next Wednesday...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Iraq, Los Angeles Times, soldier, Washington Post Co.

• Abuses by U.S. forces in Iraq included stripping women: report

  - 2004-05-10

  LOS ANGELES, May 4 Kyodo U.S. military police personnel mentally and physically abused detainees in Iraq by videotaping and photographing them, both male and female, nude as well as intimidating them with military dogs, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday citing a U.S. military report. ...

  Tags: Iraq, Los Angeles Times, U.S., women

• Ann Simmons, 2003 Nieman Fellow, wounded in Iraq.(Nieman Notes)

  - 2004-03-22

  "... At the end of last year I was sent on assignment to Iraq to assist with out paper's [Los Angeles Times] coverage of the crisis there. "Much to my horror, I was the victim of a suicide bomb attack outside a...

  Tags: Baghdad, HEALTHCARE, Iraq, Los Angeles Times

• RUSSIA: ARMS MANUFACTURER DENIES IT SUPPLIED FORMER IRAQI REGIME...(Tula Instrument-Making Design Bureau, U.S. and British press allegations)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-01-15

  Officials at one of Russia's leading arms manufacturers, the Tula Instrument-Making Design Bureau (KBP-Tula), have categorically denied renewed allegations in the U.S. and British press that the company supplied Kornet-3 antitank missile systems to Iraq before former President Saddam Hussein's ouster, ITAR-TASS reported on 13 ...

  Tags: Iraq, Los Angeles Times, Manufacturing, radar, Russia, U.S.

• IRAQ: U.S. PAPER LAUDS WORK OF EMBEDDED REPORTS.(report on fighting in war in Iraq)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-05-20

  The last day of full-scale fighting in the Iraq war, 3 April, was vividly portrayed in more than 800 page of dispatches from 85 journalists embedded with the key U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, the "Los Angeles Times" reported on 11 May. Reports from these journalists also...

  Tags: Iraq, journalist, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING