How are Iraqi women treated?
Unlike many countries in the region, Iraq’s government is officially secular. Women can get full educations, run for office, drive and serve in the armed forces. Veils are not required. Recently some women have started wearing scarves over their hair – part of a religious upsurge that some attribute to hard economic times and government use of Islamic imagery to build public support. 8) Geraldo Rivera was asked to leave Iraq and Peter Arnett was fired. Is the embedding program, where reporters are assigned to units, not working? Rivera and Arnett were not embedded. Arnett was stationed in Baghdad, and Rivera was following American soldiers on his own. Another reporter, a freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor who also was not embedded, was asked to leave Iraq last week. The military said he revealed sensitive military information in broadcast interviews. Embedded reporters must agree to ground rules, such as not disclosing information that might endanger the military. Approximate
