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Fox's rivals, CNN and MSNBC, both reported Monday that Rivera had been kicked out of the country Fox's Rivera, traveling with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, revealed tactical information and at one point told about an attack two hours before it took place, according to sources at the U "My son's over there risking his life with all of his buddies and this guy's basically saying we've failed, we screwed up," Fissel said " He said he planned to leave Baghdad, where he was one of the last reporters left for a U In the report, which first aired at 11:30 a "During a live broadcast, Geraldo drew a map in the sand of where that unit was going " Leaving a second network under a cloud could mark the end of his TV career " Arnett said it was clear that, within the United States, opposition to the war was growing, along with a challenge to President Bush about the war's conduct "It seems to me like some rats at my former network are spreading lies about me," he said " In the interview, shown by Iraq's satellite television, Arnett said the United States was reappraising the battlefield and delaying the war, maybe for a week, "and rewriting the war plan NBC was angered because Arnett gave the interview Sunday without permission and presented opinion as fact " Fissel e-mailed his protests to NBC "I held out hope initially that maybe he had given the interview at gunpoint or there was some extenuating circumstance S The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance "I gave some personal observations, some analytical observations, which I don't think are out of line with what experts think," he said EST, Rivera labeled reports of his ouster "a pack of lies" spread by his former colleagues at NBC Fox News Channel was reporting Monday that one of its embedded reporters, Greg Kelly, was cut in the face by flying glass when a mortar exploded near him during a firefight over control of a bridge -based television network, and joked that he'd try to swim to "a small island in the South Pacific "But clearly I misjudged the firestorm Arnett apologized for his "misjudgment," but added: "I said over the weekend what we all know about this war " Rivera said he intended to ride into Baghdad in search of Saddam Hussein, "the Iraqi Hitler Mike Fissel of East Berlin, Penn Arnett was the on-air reporter of a retracted 1998 CNN report that accused American forces of using sarin nerve gas in Laos in 1970 The network said it got "thousands" of e-mails and phone calls protesting Arnett's remarks ââ‚¬â€? a thousand e-mails to MSNBC President Erik Sorenson alone "We will make an appropriate determination once we have evaluated all of the facts " Fox News Channel executives did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment Not exactly what you're supposed to do out there," CNN anchorman Leon Harris said The first Bush administration was unhappy with Arnett's reporting on the Gulf War in 1991 for CNN, suggesting he had become a conveyor of propaganda Rivera denied reports that he had been expelled from the country " Meanwhile, the Pentagon was investigating whether Fox News Channel reporter Geraldo Rivera endangered troops by revealing the plans of a military unit in Iraq in advance It seemed un-American and unpatriotic , whose son is a Marine serving in the Middle East, called Arnett's comments "a disgrace "That is wrong to me He was reprimanded and later left the network " Arnett, speaking Monday on "Today," said he wanted to apologize to the American people Central Command who asked not to be identified "The war among the press is about as intense as the war in Iraq," Fox prime-time host Bill O'Reilly said in a telephone interview The network initially backed him, but reversed field after watching a tape of his remarks ââ‚¬â€?ââ‚¬â€?ââ‚¬â€? 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AP reporter Nicole Winfield contributed to this report from Doha, Qatar "I have been in contact with the news organization and assured they are taking it seriously," Whitman said It's not the first time "They can't compete fair and square on the battlefield, so they're trying to stab me in the back " Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said that while Rivera was not embedded with any military unit, any violations of embedding rules were taken very seriously Now they are trying to write another war plan NBC Fires Journalist Peter Arnett Mar 31, 4:14 PM EST NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett on Monday, angered that he had given an unauthorized interview with state-run Iraqi TV saying the American-led war effort initially failed because of Iraq's resistance Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press, gained much of his prominence from covering the 1991 Gulf War for CNN Shortly thereafter, Rivera delivered a report via satellite phone saying he was 60 miles from Baghdad m S One of the few American television reporters left in Baghdad, his reports were frequently aired on NBC and its cable sisters, MSNBC and CNBC "When I heard he had given an interview to Iraqi TV, I immediately thought it was about as bad a judgment that a reporter in the field could make," Sorenson said