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PROTECTING THE PRESS

Intrepid Colvin enters a tunnel in Gaza

Marie Colvin was marked to die. She was targeted by Syria’s dictator Bashar Assad as surely as the shadowy powers in the royal court of Saudi Arabia plotted the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. He was dead the moment he walked into the Saudi consulate. She was dead the moment Assad’s artillery picked up her satellite broadcast.

A new film, A Private War, tells how Colvin, in

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