A Private War

7/20/2019

**_Not a patch on_ Under the Wire _but still pretty solid_** > _**_Anderson Cooper_**_: _Why is it important, do you think, to see these images? Why is it important for you to be there? Right now you may be one of the only Western journalists in Homs - our team has just left._ > >_**_Marie Colvin_**_: _Yes, I mean, I had a discussion with your people, Anderson. I feel very strongly that they should be shown. Something like that, I think, is actually stronger for an audience, for someone who is not here, for an audience for which the conflict, any conflict, is very far away. That's the re__ality. These are 28,000 civilians, men, women and children, hiding, being shelled, defenceless. The little baby was one of two children who died today, one of the children being injured every day. T