By Aseel Kami BAGHDAD, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have unveiled a new hotline to protect journalists, but reporters in the world's most dangerous country still fear for their lives. Police say they have thwarted two attempts to assassinate journalists in two weeks since setting up the hotline with a journalists' rights group. One of the intended victims was Saad Qusay, a correspondent for the U.S.-funded Arabic-language TV channel al-Hurra in the southern city of Basra. The Interior Ministry says it captured a militia member who had threatened to kill him. Qusay praised the operation, which has also provided him with a round-the-clock police guard near his home, but said he still lives in fear. "I cannot hide the fact that I feel afraid. I feel afraid for my family because they arrested one person but the cell is...
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