driving around in cars with the words tv em blazened on the sides and walk around in flak jackets with the word press on the front and the back. and generally speaking, that gave you like if you had a red cross on your jacket, it gave you a degree of free passage through. you were generally not targeted. now we ve seen in the iraq war, certainly some very questionable, disturbing developments in the last week in egypt and in other conflicts in that part of the world and beyond that the journalists are seen as fair game. in some cases, they re seen as lucrative kidnapping targets. in other cases what you have are various parties to a conflict, joanne, seeing that perhaps objecting to the coverage. believe that they don t think it s fair or representing their particular point of view, so they re going to get their anger out by targeting journalists. and in other cases, it s simply unruly mobs perhaps affiliated with various parties to a conflict. for instance, these popular committees
jamie: bottom of the hour, here s the top of the news, al qaeda reportedly turning to ransom money collected from kidnapping to refill dwindling cash reserves the information coming from files that were retrieved during the u.s. raid on usama bin laden s hideout in pakistan. and, kidnapping targets reportedly include diplomats, tourists and merchants. and, libya s government claiming a nato strike on a residential neighborhood killed four people including two children, nato says it is investigating those claims. and, bruce springsteen s band, mourning the loss of clarence clemmons, who died from complications from a stroke he curved a week ago, springsteen called him a great friend and describing the loss as immeasurable. he was 69 years old.
gregg: headlines we re following, al qaeda reportedly turning to ransom money from kidnappings to refill the dwindling cash supply and the information coming from files redreefd during the u.s. raid on usama bin laden s hideout in pakistan. kidnapping targets including diplomats, tourists and merchants and nato is acknowledging civilian casualties on the ground in libya. the deaths the result of an airstrike in the neighborhood of the capital city of tripoli. and, bruce springsteen s e-street band mourning the loss of legendary saxophone player, clarence clemmons, who died in florida, from complications after a stroke he suffered a week ago, he was 69 years old. heather: new controversy over the location of yet another terror trial, eric holder made waves, you will remember when he wanted to try 9/11 master mind khalid sheikh mohammed, in civilian court. and, now, it is deja vu all over