Original sentence: -led attacks on Fallujah without comment on cause for his dentention.He also claimed that American troops were intentionally killing these journalists.In November 2004 at the News Xchange conference in Portugal, Eason Jordan claimed that United States armed forces were arresting and torturing non-coalition Arabic journalists in Iraq.Jordan maintained that complete reporting would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqi informants, and confidentiality was ensured to protect the lives of anti-Hussein Iraqi activists and translators.On April 11, 2003, Eason Jordan confessed that CNN knew about human rights abuses committed in Iraq by Saddam Hussein since 1990, but the network abstained from coverage of them in order to gain better access to information on Hussein's government.On August 16, 1997, Chief News Executive Eason Jordan gave a gift to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in an attempt to improve CNN's access to North Korean affairs.On March 10, 1999, while speaking at Harvard, Eason Jordan thanked Cuban President Fidel Castro for his comments instigating CNN's decision to broadcast in other countries, CNN International.That month, al-Arabiya reporter Abdel Kader al-Saadi had been detained by U.forces for 11 days during U
Edited sentence: He also claimed that American troops were intentionally killing journalists.In November 2004 at the News Xchange conference in Portugal, Jordan claimed that United States armed forces arresting and torturing journalists in Iraq.On April 11, 2003, Eason Jordan admitted that CNN knew about atrocities committed in Iraq by Saddam Hussein since 1990, but the company refused to tell the public so that it could gain better access to the government.On August 16, 1997, Eason Jordan gave gifts to Secretary Kim Jong-il of North Korea to nurture a relationship with CNN.On March 10, 1999, while speaking at Harvard, Eason Jordan thanked Fidel Castro for inspiring the creation of CNN International.This situation is similar to Walter Duranty's cover up of the Ukraine famine and other atrocities that he saw in the USSR but never reported