Now this is just too damn bad -- Army kicks Geraldo out of Iraq.

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | Rivera gets army boot out of Iraq Geraldo Rivera: de-accredited by US army
?Geraldo Rivera, the moustachioed former daytime TV presenter turned war reporter, has been kicked out of Iraq after "compromising" army operations.

He was de-accredited by the US military for reporting Western troop movements in the war, the Pentagon said on Monday.

"He was with a [US] military unit in the field and the commander felt that he had compromised operational information by reporting the position and movements of troops," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told Reuters.

"The commander thought it best to get the reporter out of his battle space and we understand he is being removed from Iraq," Whitman said.

There were unconfirmed reports tonight that Rivera's crime was drawing his rough location in the sand, breaching strict military accreditation conditions which require journalists not to talk about their whereabouts.

Fox News in New York had no immediate comment, and Whitman said he did not have details of the