Embedded Reporter Talks Life in Iraq: Week 7

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Published March 10, 2008 at 9:31 AM PDT

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Local journalist Tony Perry is on his sixth visit to Iraq as an embedded journalist with local Camp Pendleton Marines. He tells us how plans for a hospital in Haditha are going, why a general refuses

Tom Fudge: This morning five American soldiers were killed in Central Baghdad in an apparent suicide bombing. Four of the soldiers died at the scene, and the fifth died later from wounds. The violence in Iraq continues, obviously. Tony Perry is the San Diego Bureau chief for the LA Times . He's in Iraq and he's been spending a fair amount of his time covering locally-based Marines in Al Anbar province.

Read Tony Perry's blog for the Los Angeles Times : Babylon and Beyond .

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Tony Perry, San Diego bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times who is currently embedded with Camp Pendleton Marines in Iraq.