Arnett gets new job with Arab satellite TV channel

Axed NBC correspondent, New Zealander Peter Arnett, is reporting for pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya.

"He [Arnett] is an able reporter who has covered wars before and who knows Iraq well," the Dubai-based station's editor-in-chief Salah Nejm said.

"I think he is unbiased and has a lot of experience."

Arnett started reporting for Al-Arabiya on Saturday, becoming its third correspondent in Baghdad. His reports are voiced over in Arabic.

Last week American network NBC fired him for giving an unauthorised interview with state-run Iraqi TV, during which he said the United States-led war effort had initially failed because of Iraq's resistance.

NBC was angered because Arnett gave the interview without permission and presented opinion as fact.

Arnett has since apologised for his "misjudgment" but described himself as a "casualty of the information war".