Reporter: 'If Anything Happens to Me...The New York Times killed me'

Reporter: 'If Anything Happens to Me...The New York Times killed me': When New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died in Syria earlier this year, his death was absorbed along with the civic unrest and military upheaval that have been prevalent in that country for some time. Add the inherent dangers of foreign correspondence to that unrest and military upheaval, and it’s not hard to see how Shadid paid the ultimate price with little fanfare.

But as the whole story on his death and the manner in which the New York Times had smuggled him into Syria has come to light, it’s increasingly difficult to ignore a situation that Shadid himself feared would lead to his death.

After all, he had been assigned to go to Syria in December, but after “a security advisor analyzed the plan to get to Syria from Turkey” the trip was canceled because of the danger. Yet just over a month later, “with the security situation worse,” he was again called to make the trip from Turkey into Syria.

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