The risks of reporting from Iraq are revealed again today with news that Rory Carroll, Guardian correspondent in Baghdad, has been kidnapped.
Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian’s editor, said: “We’re deeply concerned at Rory’s disappearance. He is in Iraq as a professional journalist – and he’s a very good, straight journalist whose only concern is to report fairly and truthfully about the country. We urge those holding him to release him swiftly – for the sake of his family and for the sake of anyone who believes the world needs to be kept fully informed about events in Iraq today.”