It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Works
The Kindness of Strangers autobiography publiKate Adied by Headline ISBN 0-7553-1073-X
Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War publiKate Adied by Coronet ISBN 0-340-82060-8
Nobody's Child publiKate Adied by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd ISBN 0-340-83800-0
Into Danger publiKate Adied by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd(first ed. Early life
Adie was born in Northumberland within sight of St Mary's Island. Indeed it was this approach that elicited the wry adage that "a good decision is getting on a plane at an airport where Kate Adie is getting off".

Her most high-profile role was that of chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time Kate Adie became well known for reporting from war zones around the world. Kathryn "Kate" Adie (/ˈeɪdi/) OBE (born 19 September 1945) is an English journalist.