Geraldo: I May Return

(CBS)  Fox News war correspondent Geraldo Rivera wants to get back in the field in Iraq.

The Pentagon has said Fox News Channel agreed to remove Rivera from his posting with U.S. troops in Iraq, after the reporter was accused of revealing unauthorized military movements.

Quoting an unnamed source, the New York Daily News says Rivera has "volunteered" to go to Kuwait, where he'll keep reporting on the war. The paper said he won't be punished.

Rivera told a Minneapolis TV station he feels like he's "been scolded." KSTP has a reporter embedded with the same unit Rivera was with.

That reporter said members of the unit had mixed reactions. He says some were angry over Rivera's reports -- but others wanted an autograph.

Rivera told the station he hopes to stay in Kuwait for a week and then arrange to rejoin the 101st Airborne Division. A Pentagon spokesman said that probably won't happen -- but it remains to be seen if Rivera will be allowed to cover things from "another perspective."

Earlier, Rivera had dismissed reports that he had been ejected from Iraq for revealing tactical information about the 101st Airborne Division.

Fox's rivals, CNN and MSNBC, both reported Monday that Rivera had been kicked out of Iraq. Shortly thereafter, Rivera delivered a report via satellite phone saying he was 60 miles from Baghdad. Rivera labeled reports of his ouster "a pack of lies" spread by his former colleagues at NBC, or as he put it, "some rats at my former network."

This wasn't Rivera's first battlefield brouhaha. Sixteen months ago, while covering the war in Afghanistan, he generated criticism for being hundreds of miles from the site of a friendly fire incident he reported on.

Rivera reported in a Dec. 6, 2001, piece that he became emotional and choked up while standing on the "hallowed ground" in Afghanistan where "friendly fire took so many of our, our men and the mujahedeen yesterday." Rivera said he had recited the Lord's Prayer.

Rivera later admitted that he was several hundred miles from the site near Kandahar where three Americans were killed by an errant U.S. bomb.

In an interview, Rivera said he had confused the Kandahar deaths with another "friendly fire" incident that cost several Afghan lives in Tora Bora. But according to the Baltimore Sun, Pentagon information showed the Tora Bora incident occurred at least three days after Rivera's Dec. 6 report.

Rivera quit his talk show on CNBC to become a war correspondent for the Fox News Channel in November 2001. He said at the time he couldn't bear to stay on the sidelines during a big story.