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Olga Craig, journalist in Northern Ireland and Iraq
Olga Craig and Jens Munch were crouched in a beaten-up Jeep on the outskirts of Umm Qasr, a city in southern Iraq, when they felt the ground begin to tremble. The sound of sniper fire punctured the air and black birds scattered across the blue sky.It was …