Be careful not to film anything in Iraq that the army might not want people back home to see. A Reuters man was shot by U.S. troops while he filmed outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad after it had come under a mortar attack because“soldiers had thought his camera was a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.” , according to http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3296215. International media bodies are calling for a full inquiry, but nothing is likely to come of it.
On Jan 3, 2004 ABC reported that American soldiers were detaining Iraqis working for Reuters and that US troops had fired on camera crews.