On December 19, Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner and Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling gave a press conference in Baghdad on recent operations, the growing Concerned Local Citizens program, and efforts against al-Qaida in Iraq. The MNF-I press release is here. Transcript pdf is available from from the MNF-I link.
According to the transcript, The New York Times was there, Newsweek was there, Associated Press was there, NPR was there, NBC was there, The Sunday Times was there.
No record McClatchy was there.
You can read the AP account of the press conference, written by Patrick Quinn, here. Why wasn't McClatchy there? I'm guessing McClatchy was too busy writing another story on the misery and injustice inflicted on Iraq by Americans.
