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On my last afternoon in Iraq, in December 2008, I drove to a graveyard in Baghdad to have a conversation with Khalid Hassan, who had been dead for over a year. All I could do when I got there was kneel in the dust and say, over and over, “I’m sorry.”
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Associated Press correspondent Christopher Torchia was embedded for four weeks with U.S. Army units supporting a U.S. Marine offensive against the Taliban in the Afghan city of Marjah. He reflects on the troubling personal and professional questions posed by his experience. Read the article here.

In Tehran, journalists faced vague antistate accusations during mass, televised judicial proceedings.
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REYNOSA, Mexico — The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually happen if the newspapers print nothing about it, the radio and television stations broadcast nothing, and the authorities never confirm that it occurred?
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NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News staffers got a memorandum Tuesday that promises to leave no part of the organization untouched, and will lead to massive personnel reductions by the end of 2010.
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