Arab journalists walked out of a Baghdad news conference given by US Secretary of State Colin Powell today in protest at the killing of two Iraqi journalists by US troops and general lack of security.
A representative of the Iraqi media read out a statement at the start of the news conference, condemning yesterday's killing of the two journalists from the Dubai-based Al Arabiya television channel, as Gen Powell and Iraq's US governor, Mr Paul Bremer, looked on.
The journalists then stood up and left the news conference.