Editor & Publisher
Reporters with the Los Angeles Times and the Miami Herald were ordered to leave the island today. A third reporter and photographer with the Charlotte Observer were given the option of staying until Saturday but were told that their access to the prison camp was now denied, report
Greg Mitchell and
Joe Strupp.
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Charlotte Observer editor Rick Thames: "The Pentagon appears to have panicked when it discovered it couldn't manipulate a first-class reporter, so it shoved him and all other press out."
(Observer)
