| Peter Arnett. REUTERS/NBC/Handout - Reuters (REUTERS) |
Britain's Daily Mirror said it had hired veteran U.S reporter Peter Arnett, sacked by American TV network NBC after he told Iraqi television the U.S, war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed.
"I report the truth of what is happening in Baghdad and will not apologize for it," he told the tabloid newspaper, one of the most prominent opponents of Britain's involvement in the war.
Arnett, 68, who as a CNN reporter in 1991 was one of the few western journalists reporting from Baghdad during the previous Gulf War, said in an interview on Sunday with state-owned Iraqi TV that the U.S. military would need to rewrite its war plan.
"I am still in shock and awe at being fired," New Zealand-born Arnett - who won a Pulitzer prize for his Vietnam War coverage - wrote under the banner headline "This war's NOT working."
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