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With Brian and Richard and the Nightly News team in Baghdad, but at a different location, the bureau is getting a little breathing space to do some planning ahead and do necessary chores. This morning Tom Aspell and I had to go into the Green Zone (we live in what's called the Red Zone, which is anywhere outside the Green Zone in Central Baghdad) to get our press credentials renewed. Unlike Brian and his team, who had their credentials delivered to Camp Victory, we had to make a personal appearance. No exceptions for us, who regularly work here. Every journalist must be finger-printed (all 10 fingers) and iris screened, and sign and initial every paragraph on a three-page form that gives you all the do's and don'ts of covering the military side of the story and makes you fully responsible for putting yourself in harm's way. But it gave us a chance to walk outside and, after an incident-free ride into the Green Zone, the short walk to the credentialing center in the warm sunshine felt pleasant and liberating.
In four days there will be an important meeting here. For the first time, high-level representatives of the U.S. and Iran as well as Syria will meet with the Iraqi government to talk about important Security issues. The U.S. has accused both Iran and Syria of fueling and supporting the insurgency.
I tried to find out where the meeting is taking place so we can plan our coverage. Yesterday I was told it's at the Convention Center, where the Iraqi Parliament meets, in the Green Zone. Today, when I met the Iraqi official who told me this, he said, "It changed 10 minutes ago!" Now it's in the Foreign Affairs Office, just outside the Green Zone. And he still had no information about media access, or who'd be in charge of coordinating media access and he worried about security around the chosen venue. The U.S. embassy could not help either, the Iraqi government is responsible, they said. With only four days to go it's a little worrying that nothing seems to have been organized yet, not even who will attend the meeting!
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