So we recruited the former Baghdad correspondent James Glanz to write on the relationship between the drawdown and the economy.

"I am very famous in Iraq," said Haidar Ali al-Assadi, an Iraqi who is a principal Baghdad correspondent.

Dexter Filkins is a Baghdad correspondent for The Times.

While the BBC's Baghdad correspondent, she was expelled from Iraq in 2002, but returned to the country after Saddam Hussein was removed from power the following year.

So much so that when the Iraqi government wanted to expel two of its Baghdad correspondents during the war, Al Jazeera threatened to black out all its war coverage, and Iraq backed down.

- Richard Engel, a Baghdad correspondent speaking to Peter Jennings on ABC's "World News Tonight."

Posed by the co-anchor, Diane Sawyer, the question came at the end of a segment in which Dan Harris, the show's Baghdad correspondent, gave a rundown of the stories breaking in Iraq that day.

The base was locked down, said Michael Hastings, her boyfriend, who is the Baghdad correspondent for Newsweek magazine.

So could the forthcoming memoirs of Peter Arnett, CNN's daring wartime Baghdad correspondent.

The mood of "Control Room" is both frenetic and grim, especially when one of Al Jazeera's Baghdad correspondents is killed, along with two other journalists, by an American rocket.