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De-embedded Photographer

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

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.
Ref. https://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/28/form...urns_to_iraq_as

Photographer De-embedded

I think that this ex-marine paints a very interesting picture of what is really happening in Iraq. I hope the situation improves soon.