Former Marine Returns to Iraq as Embedded Photographer Only to be Ordered Home

by via Democracy Now

Mon, Apr 28, 2008 7:13PM

Monday, April 28, 2008 :James Lee is a former Marine from California who served two tours of duty in Iraq in 2001 to 2004. He's been back in Iraq more recently, this time as an embedded photographer. Lee is now a journalism student at San Francisco State University and filed reports from Iraq for the college newspaper, the Golden Gate XPress. But earlier this month, Lee was abruptly de-embedded. On April 2nd, just before General Petraeus was due to brief Congress on progress in Iraq, Lee was ordered to leave Basra. [includes rush transcript]

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James Lee, former Marine from California who served two tours of duty in Iraq in 2001 to 2004. He is now a journalism student at San Francisco State University and filed reports from Iraq for the college newspaper, the Golden Gate XPress.

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