Ways to Die in Iraq I learned about the dangers of covering Iraq firsthand in late October while responding to a suicide bombing at a police station in Baghdad with Joao Silva, a New York Times photographer, and Dexter Filkins, a Times reporter. An eerie silence blanketed a crowd of hundreds as we got out of our car and made our way toward the bomb site. Suddenly, a man sprinted from the crowd and began shoving and punching us, shouting, "Kill them, kill them all!" The crowd joined in, closing around us, and then a hail of rocks and concrete rained down upon us as we ran for our car. In seconds, passive onlookers had been transformed into a frenzied mob trying to hold our car back. Our driver gunned the engine, nearly running down several people. In the backseat, Joao held a T-shirt to my head to stop the bleeding from an ugly gash. BY MICHAEL KAMBER (CJR) Reporters Without Borders demonstrates in Paris against imprisonment of journalists in Cuba Reporters Without Borders demonstrated against the imprisonment of 30 journalists in Cuba, at an art exhibition at a major Paris landmark attended by the Cuban Culture Minister. Demonstrators made their protest at the Great Arch of La Défense on 20 January as the Cuban minister and the Cuban ambassador to Paris visited the rooftop opening of a major exhibition of contemporary Cuban art. Little Murders Thirty years ago, editorial illustration in our mainstream media was provocative and smart, driving the words as often as following them. Today much of it is literal and safe, more decorative than idea-driven. How did this happen in an age where image is everything? BY JESSE SUNENBLICK (CJR) Freed French journalists set up support committee for still detained Pakistani colleague Khawar Mehdi Rizvi / "This case is not over" said Marc Epstein Two French journalists returned home to France after being allowed to leave Pakistan and immediately launched an international support committee for their still detained Pakistani colleague Khawar Mehdi Rizvi. Marc Epstein and Jean-Paul Guilloteau of the weekly L'Express told a press conference in Paris hat they would not rest until the Pakistan authorities released their colleague. 
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