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IRAQ & THE MEDIA update -

# Iraqi editor missing: Jamal al-Zubaidi, 56, has disappeared. He was last seen leaving As-Saffir’s offices in the central Karada neighborhood of Baghdad around 1 pm on Saturday.

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# "On the U.S. cable TV news nets, the Anna Nicole Smith soap opera garnered far more attention than the Iraq policy debate and events in Iraq."

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